SimTask usage

Networking & Multiplayer
#1

I have a question regarding SimTask usage. The docs are not exactly clear about the circumstances under which a “new” simtask is created, but I am under the assumption that the current SimTask is created when the server fires an event.

Assuming a hypothetical Player implementing SimUserDataListener…


    	public void userDataReceived(UserID arg0, ByteBuffer arg1) {
		SimTask simTask = SimTask.getCurrent();
                doThing1(simTask);
                doThing2();
		
	}

        private void doThing1(SimTask task)
        {
            ...
        }

       private void doThing2()
       {
          SimTask simTask = SimTask.getCurrent();
       }


Are the simTask refrences in doThing1 and doThing2 the same?  My feeling is yes, but I wanted to make sure.  Additionally I was hoping I wouldn't have to be passing SimTask references everywhere :)

For what it is worth, I am thinking of the SimTask conceptually as a container managed transaction. Is that a relatively appropriate model?

#2

Yup, your right on the money… and that is in fact what it is-- a handle to a transactional context and some related stuff.

;D