Heya, looking for some advice on an application I’m working on! The gist is:
- I have two daemons, each with persistent vats. One daemon is meant to run on a central machine, the other as an agent on several other (worker) machines
- The central machine has one object for each worker machine
- On initial startup, the worker machine makes a method call to the central machine and gives the central machine a reference to itself
- Making a method call against one of these objects on the central machine forwards the call on to the worker machine
What I would like to accomplish:
- On startup, the daemon on the worker machine should (re-)establish a connection to the central machine
- If the worker machine comes back online after a disconnect and reconnects to the central machine, I would like method calls to the corresponding object on the central machine to resume forwarding to the worker machine
But I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to set something like this up. Are there any existing examples and/or best practices I could draw from for a situation like this? (Do I maybe need to define a method on the server side that replaces its client reference with a new live reference, i.e. is the old reference totally unusable once the connection is severed?)
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