Hi,
I'm including this in HECnet because it might be of general interest.
I have been creating the odd object here and there on a test router, using the mirror.py
application class as a starting example, for listening to and talking to VMS processes
that have opened up a task connection to them.
I can do something like:
$ open/read/write fio node::"=TIMESTAMP"
$ write fio "UTC"
$ read fio ts
$ close fio
$ show sym fio
The object waits for a message - the timezone required - and then returns with a message
containing the VMS time string in the form dd-mmm-yyyy:hh:mm:ss.cc
It all work very well.
The dispatch method in the pydecnet application class code sends an accept when it gets a
connect and then sends a message containing the timestamp when it receives a data message
containing the timezone required.
A simpler version of this, in which the timestamp in UTC is sent immediately without
waiting for a timezone string, would not work. I was trying to execute a
conn.send_data(...) immediately after a conn.accept() and getting a 'WrongState'
exception there and then. What am I missing?
Regards
Keith