From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-10-14T20:09:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Challenging Project ... Need a deep guru to provide enlightenment.

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Or to be specifically accurate, DRbObjects aren't transparent enough ...
they don't provide you with the list of available functionality
appropriately.

On 10/14/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually I wrote a new chunk of code based on Ara's snippet that for
> direct calls does EXACTLY what I want it to ... I'll be posting it later
> today ... I just have to deal with stuff like blah.call.call2.call3 ...
> which I don't believe will currently work ... I'll have to dig through an=
d
> see how DRb makes it work ...
>  DRbObjects don't work ... call methods or call respond_to? ... they are
> NOT calls on the remote object ... I don't believe ANY call on a proxied
> object should be local, they should ALL be passed over the wire ( and yes=
, I
> know that at least id and send can't, but everything other than those ).
>  I really think you guys will like the stuff I have ... So far, I'm
> calling it Roxy ...
>  Thanks.
>  j.
>
>  On 10/13/05, ES <ruby-ml@magical-cat.org> wrote:
> >
> > Jeff Wood wrote:
> > > These are a good start, but what I'm really trying to do is come up
> > with a
> > > completely clean way to do DRb ...
> >
> > It really helps when you say what you actually want to do :)
> >
> > It seems as if the DRb object already works just like you want
> > except that it says it is a DRbObject when you do #inspect or
> > something? Or is there some other functionality that you need?
> >
> > > Don't get me wrong, I love DRb for what it is, but I want transparent
> > proxy.
> > >
> > > So, I want to be able to do DRb::Proxy.new( "druby://add.ress:1234" )
> > >
> > > and get back an object I can call methods on ... that will report it
> > self as
> > > whatever the Proxy is proxying not DRbObject ...
> > >
> > > Does that make sense? I am wanting to be able to use irb with DRb and
> > get
> > > live auto-completion across the wire ...
> > >
> > > I figure a transparent proxy is the ONLY way ...
> > >
> > > let me know if I'm going down the wrong path.
> > >
> > > j.
> > >
> > > On 10/13/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>this'll be a good start:
> > >>
> > >><snip backwards reply>
> > >>
> > >>scratch that - try this:
> > >>
> > >>harp:~ > cat a.rb
> > >>module Proxy
> > >>def self::new obj
> > >>klass =3D Class::new do
> > >>ignore =3D %w( __send__ __id__ )
> > >>
> > >>obj.class.instance_methods.each do |m|
> > >>next if ignore.include? m
> > >>module_eval <<-code
> > >>def #{ m } *a, &b
> > >>__obj.send "#{ m }", *a, &b
> > >>end
> > >>code
> > >>end
> > >>
> > >>attr_accessor '__obj'
> > >>
> > >>def initialize obj
> > >>self.__obj =3D obj
> > >>end
> > >>
> > >>self
> > >>end
> > >>klass::new obj
> > >>end
> > >>end
> > >>
> > >>a =3D String::new 'forty-two'
> > >>b =3D Proxy::new a
> > >>
> > >>p a.class
> > >>p b.class
> > >>
> > >>p(a.methods =3D=3D b.methods)
> > >>
> > >>p b.upcase
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>harp:~ > ruby a.rb
> > >>String
> > >>String
> > >>true
> > >>"FORTY-TWO"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>-a
> > >>--
> > >>
> >
> > >>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > >>| email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov
> > >>| phone :: 303.497.6469
> > >>| Your life dwells amoung the causes of death
> > >>| Like a lamp standing in a strong breeze. --Nagarjuna
> > >>
> > >>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > "http://ruby-lang.org -- do you ruby?"
> > >
> > > Jeff Wood
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> "http://ruby-lang.org -- do you ruby?"
>
> Jeff Wood
>



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