Custom Operator

[nebhale]

Having some experience doing this now, the client portion of the implementation (i.e. the portion that transforms Reactive Streams into wire-protocol) should be implemented as a custom operator. This would allow the use of onSubscribe() to establish the connection, cancel() to terminate it, and request() to call for more data from a portal. This is much easier to troubleshoot and more intuitive to maintain than the current nesting dolls of reactive flows.

[davecramer]

Can you give me an example of what you are looking to do here ?

[nebhale]

Yeah, this is a really hard one, and probably not suitable to pick up. Effectively, we use that really complicated *MessageFlow and a bunch of Processors to get data into and out of reactor-netty. What needs to happen is that we have to write a custom Reactor operator (implement Subscriber and Publisher from scratch directly) and act as the reactive to wire-protocol bridge. It'll be more efficient, more understandable, more debuggable, and better all around. However, it take a ton of Reactor expertise to make it happen, which sucks.

[davecramer]

No worries, I've found a bunch of other stuff to work on.

The way we loop through oid's for instance
and binary encoder/decoders