Re: RE: Holding messages in engine

[David Dillard]

HI,

We do an order consolidation process on some of our inbound order messages which sounds similar to what you are after.

To do this we use two threads:

One to collect messages from the client and store them in a gdbm database

A second that pulls the messages from the database and consolidates them.  This is on a timed schedule to allow enough time for the client drop off all the orders in a batch.

If you can afford to wait and group messages for a given time frame this will work, however if anything comes in after the cut-off time it will be it’s own message.

I am not sure exactly what problems you are running into but I am attaching out code in case our code might help.

The attached DOC will give a better explanation of how the tcl code works.