/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//// This example is from the ACE Programmers Guide.
////  Chapter:  "The Acceptor/Connector"  (Connection Initialization)
//// For details please see the guide at
//// http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
////  AUTHOR: Umar Syyid (usyyid@hns.com)
//// and Ambreen Ilyas (ambreen@bitsmart.com)
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//Example 9
#include "ace/Reactor.h"
#include "ace/Svc_Handler.h"
#include "ace/Connector.h"
#include "ace/Synch.h"
#include "ace/SOCK_Connector.h"
#include "ace/INET_Addr.h"

#define PORT_NUM 10101
#define DATA_SIZE 16

//forward declaration
class My_Svc_Handler;
//Function prototype
static void make_connections(void *arg);

// Template specializations for the hashing function for the
// hash_map which is used by the cache. The cache is used internally by the
// Cached Connection Strategy . Here we use ACE_Hash_Addr
// as our external identifier. This utility class has already
// overloaded the == operator and the hash() method. (The
// hashing function). The hash() method delgates the work to
// hash_i() and we use the IP address and port to get a
// a unique integer hash value.
size_t
ACE_Hash_Addr<ACE_INET_Addr>::hash_i (const ACE_INET_Addr &addr) const
{
  return addr.get_ip_address () + addr.get_port_number ();
}

//instantiate a strategy acceptor
typedef ACE_Strategy_Connector<My_Svc_Handler,ACE_SOCK_CONNECTOR>
STRATEGY_CONNECTOR;

//Instantiate the Creation Strategy
typedef ACE_NOOP_Creation_Strategy<My_Svc_Handler>
        NULL_CREATION_STRATEGY;
//Instantiate the Concurrency Strategy
typedef ACE_NOOP_Concurrency_Strategy<My_Svc_Handler>
        NULL_CONCURRENCY_STRATEGY;
//Instantiate the Connection Strategy
typedef ACE_Cached_Connect_Strategy<My_Svc_Handler,
                                    ACE_SOCK_CONNECTOR,
                                    ACE_SYNCH_RW_MUTEX>
        CACHED_CONNECT_STRATEGY;
 
class My_Svc_Handler:
public ACE_Svc_Handler <ACE_SOCK_STREAM,ACE_MT_SYNCH>{
private:
char* data;

public:
My_Svc_Handler(){
data= new char[DATA_SIZE];
 }
My_Svc_Handler(ACE_Thread_Manager* tm){
data= new char[DATA_SIZE];
 }
//Called before the service handler is recycled..
int
recycle (void *a=0){
   ACE_DEBUG ((LM_DEBUG,
    "(%P|%t) recycling Svc_Handler %d with handle %d\n",
              this, this->peer ().get_handle ()));
 return 0;
 }

int open(void*){
 ACE_DEBUG((LM_DEBUG,"(%t)Connection established \n"));
 
 
 

 //Register the service handler with the reactor
 ACE_Reactor::instance() ->register_handler(this,ACE_Event_Handler::READ_MASK);
 activate(THR_NEW_LWP|THR_DETACHED);
 return 0;
 }

int handle_input(ACE_HANDLE){
 ACE_DEBUG((LM_DEBUG,"Got input in thread: (%t) \n"));
 peer().recv_n(data,DATA_SIZE);
 ACE_DEBUG((LM_DEBUG,"<< %s\n",data));

 //keep yourself registered with the reactor
 return 0;
}

int svc(void){
 //send a few messages and then mark connection as idle so that it can be recycled later.
 ACE_DEBUG((LM_DEBUG,"Started the service routine \n"));

 for(int i=0;i<3;i++){
  ACE_DEBUG((LM_DEBUG,"(%t)>>Hello World\n"));
  ACE_OS::fflush(stdout);
  peer().send_n("Hello World",sizeof("Hello World"));
  }

 //Mark the service handler as being idle now and let the other threads reuse this connection
 this->idle(1);

 //Wait for the thread to die
 this->thr_mgr()->wait();
 return 0;
 }
};
ACE_INET_Addr *addr;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
 addr= new ACE_INET_Addr(PORT_NUM,argv[1]);
 //Creation Strategy
 NULL_CREATION_STRATEGY creation_strategy;

 //Concurrency Strategy
   NULL_CONCURRENCY_STRATEGY concurrency_strategy;

 //Connection Strategy
 CACHED_CONNECT_STRATEGY caching_connect_strategy;
 

 //instantiate the connector
 STRATEGY_CONNECTOR connector(
   ACE_Reactor::instance(), //the reactor to use
   &creation_strategy,
   &caching_connect_strategy,
   &concurrency_strategy);
 //Use the thread manager to  spawn a single thread to
 //connect multiple times passing it the address
 //of the strategy connector
 if(ACE_Thread_Manager::instance()->spawn(
    (ACE_THR_FUNC) make_connections,
    (void *) &connector,
    THR_NEW_LWP) == -1)
 ACE_ERROR ((LM_ERROR, "(%P|%t) %p\n%a", "client thread spawn failed"));

while(1) /* Start the reactor?s event loop */
 ACE_Reactor::instance()->handle_events();
}

//Connection establishment function, tries to establish connections
//to the same server again and re-uses the connections from the
//cache
void make_connections(void *arg){
 ACE_DEBUG((LM_DEBUG,"(%t)Prepared to connect \n"));
 STRATEGY_CONNECTOR *connector= (STRATEGY_CONNECTOR*) arg;
 for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++){
 My_Svc_Handler *svc_handler = 0;
 

 // Perform a blocking connect to the server using the Strategy
 // Connector with a connection caching strategy.  Since we are
 // connecting to the same <server_addr> these calls will return the
 // same dynamically allocated <Svc_Handler> for each <connect> call.
 if (connector->connect (svc_handler, *addr) == -1){
  ACE_ERROR ((LM_ERROR, "(%P|%t) %p\n", "connection failed\n"));
  return;
  }

 // Rest for a few seconds so that the connection has been freed up
 ACE_OS::sleep (5);
 }
}
 
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