On 26 Aug 2005, at 20:07, Kevin Brown wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2005 12:53, Eric Hodel wrote: > >> On 26 Aug 2005, at 01:18, Kevin Brown wrote: >> >>> On Friday 26 August 2005 02:08, Eric Hodel wrote: >>> >>>> On 26 Aug 2005, at 00:32, Kevin Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> And the client code is in a KDE app, so I won't bore you all with >>>>> the pile >>>>> there: >>>>> --START-- >>>>> require 'Korundum' >>>>> require 'drb' >>>>> require 'errors' >>>>> require 'login' >>>>> >>>> >>>> I don't see require 'db/db' here, so you'll need to add 'include >>>> DRbUndumped' to db/db if you don't want db/db to live here. >>>> >>> >>> If I don't want db/db to live here? It's a seperate process...? >>> >> >> db/db may be a huge object that you wouldn't want sent across the >> wire, or its a lot of code that doesn't need to be loaded. > > Ok, that makes sense... I don't want it marshalled, just need > proxy objects, > and that's why I've been using the undumped... > >>> I'm totally lost as to A) Why that class would exist here, and B) >>> Why it existing here would cause DRb to not be able to call one of >>> my methods in the listener class? >> >> A) DRb tries to marshal objects when communicating. If DRb can't >> marshal the object, it sends a DRbObject proxy instead. > > Exactly what I want. :-) > >> B) When DRb is trying to send marshaled objects back and forth, both >> sides need the class definition or the object needs to be undumpable. > > Ok, DB is a gigantic class, that depends on a large pile of > subclasses. The > part that's getting me is that the DRb proxy object is obviously > correctly > associated with the Listener class. The error comes from the call > inside the > listener when it calls @db.login(user). The user I'm passing in > was just to > reproduce the error, but if it did execute correctly, an error > would be > raised from my code. I know the User is fine as far as the > listener call is > concerned. Its hard to say what exactly is wrong without being able to tinker with it :( Did you see my other email about adding DRbUndumped to the User class? Even if you mark a class as Undumped, objects generated by the class may be marshaled and returned across the wire. > So, my confusion now lies in the fact that I really just want DRb > to send the > message to the server, and back off while that happens. It still > seems to > want to do it on the client side via marshalling, but I'm new > enough to this > I could be on total crack. :-) If you could reduce your failure to something that is easily distributable, I could help more. -- Eric Hodel - drbrain / segment7.net - http://segment7.net FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04