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How would you design a background C# application to accept external commands?
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostLeave a comment:
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostFair enough, but honestly, seems a very simple approach given the requirements. Doesn't seem any more complex that writing azure functions to start processes, does the timeout on azure functions not limit this approach?Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI've written pretty much this exact system, although it was java threads and CORBA waiting on multiple other systems connecting.
It was about 15 years ago though and I wouldn't even entertain that kind of architecture now. If pushed and as said I would be more inclined to fire off new processes as at least they are viewable on the OS.Last edited by woohoo; 30 September 2019, 18:09.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostMy first thought would be to write a windows service and have it spawn multiple threads that connect to each source. I would then have a config table with the source details and if disabled or not.
It was about 15 years ago though and I wouldn't even entertain that kind of architecture now. If pushed and as said I would be more inclined to fire off new processes as at least they are viewable on the OS.Leave a comment:
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I'm not sure I find the idea of hosting a server that takes HTTP commands to open ports that appealing.Leave a comment:
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I think I would embed an HTTP server inside the app running on a specific port, and then when you want to update the configuration you could just POST commands to it using curl.
If you're feeling a bit more fancy you could serve up a static index.html page with some inputs and a button which posts the right commands for you. You would access this page using your browser at e.g. http://localhost:9000/index.html
And if you're feeling even more fancy than that then you could build a complete React app and serve it up.
I haven't used it but something like this might be suitable: GitHub - unosquare/embedio: A tiny, cross-platform, module based web server for .NETLast edited by Freewill; 27 September 2019, 18:29.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostMy current understanding is that first of all this is all raw TCP/IP, you build a message byte-by-byte in a very exact way and then send it over ethernet. This message says "I want to receive a datastream". The remote device then will start tossing data at you each time something of interest happens; as mentioned above it's not clear if the connection remains open and I haven't done this low-level stuff for a long time - but it IS pretty low level. I believe the underlying hardware is really working over serial interface, etc, with an ethernet adapter (can't go into any more details for NDA etc).
So my guess is create a tcp listener server that runs on the server (console app or win service etc). In an infinite loop just have the server listening for a tcp connection and spawn a thread to handle that connection.
As you said have another thread running to check config file or table, whatever then kill the relevant thread. Though, if the thread dealing with the connection is going to update a DB, don't know why you cant check config table and end the thread.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostMy current understanding is that first of all this is all raw TCP/IP, you build a message byte-by-byte in a very exact way and then send it over ethernet. This message says "I want to receive a datastream". The remote device then will start tossing data at you each time something of interest happens; as mentioned above it's not clear if the connection remains open and I haven't done this low-level stuff for a long time - but it IS pretty low level. I believe the underlying hardware is really working over serial interface, etc, with an ethernet adapter (can't go into any more details for NDA etc).
All of this of course depends on how many devices (a few, thousands?), what you need to do with the data, what capabilities you want, etc, etc.Leave a comment:
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