B4J Question Server Filter and Wait For

[Alexander Stolte]

Can you use wait for in a server filter? Because if I do it like described here in the tutorial, I have no possibility to return in the "filter" sub?

Resumable Subs (wait for / sleep) in server handlers

Resumable subs can only work when there is a message queue. By default, server handlers end when the Handle sub is completed. They do not create a message loop. If you want to wait for an event then you need to call StartMessageLoop and later StopMessageLoop. Example of handler that downloads...

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Public Sub Filter(req As ServletRequest, resp As ServletResponse)

VerifyToken(req.GetHeader("Authorization"),req) 'Return?
StartMessageLoop

End Sub

Private Sub VerifyToken(auth_token As String,req As ServletRequest) As ResumableSub

fs.VerifyToken(auth_token)
Wait For fs_TokenVerified(TokenId As String, Success As Boolean, Token As FirebaseToken)
Return Success

End sub

 

[OliverA]

Something like:

Public Sub Filter(req As ServletRequest, resp As ServletResponse)
    dim result(1) as object
    result(0)  = False
    VerifyToken(req.GetHeader("Authorization"),req, result) 'Return?
    StartMessageLoop
    return result(0)
End Sub

Private Sub VerifyToken(auth_token As String,req As ServletRequest, result() as object) As ResumableSub

    fs.VerifyToken(auth_token)
    Wait For fs_TokenVerified(TokenId As String, Success As Boolean, Token As FirebaseToken)
    result(0) = Success
    StopMessageLoop
    Return Success

End Sub
[code]

 

[Erel]

No.

Remember the number #1 rule of resumable subs:
From the caller point of view, the sub returns on the first call to Wait For or Sleep.

This is why you cannot return results from resumable subs without the special ResumableSub type (which must be called with Wait For and is not relevant here).

 

[Alexander Stolte]

Okay, thanks. Then i have to think of something else.

 

[OliverA]

Can you use wait for in a server filter?

No.

Huh? Has anyone tried my suggestion? I'm attaching a demo. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here...

 

[Alexander Stolte]

Huh? Has anyone tried my suggestion? I'm attaching a demo. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here...

This works, but I don't know if it's safe to use. ?

 

[OliverA]

but I don't know if it's safe to use.

Elaborate

 

[Erel]

This code is 100% fine and correct.

I misread the code. Sorry.