Property to see the status of the server connection

[krjaction50]

We've had some network errors where the server-side socket gets closed in our windows service. We have a background that does a lot of housekeeping. I was looking for a property on TcpHost to give me the status of the underlying connection. (open, closed, error, etc). I do not see such a property exposed. This would allow me to keep trying to re-open the server-side connection if it errors out.

[tylerje]

You're welcome to submit a PR that does that. My time for maintenance of late has been rather limited.

[tylerje]

If time allows, I'll be exploring this as an enhancement.

[krjaction50]

yeah I just don't have time to do it. It should be very simple from looking at the code. Rarely, we get a disconnect on the server-side and we have no way to recover from that because we have no way to know it happened. We have a background housekeeping thread that runs ever 5 seconds where I could check and if it's disconnected spin up a new server listener.

Thanks

[tylerje]

Simple perhaps to give you the status from the host side, but more complex to recover or know this from the client side. One could, if the connection is exposed, even read only, test the state on the host side and re-open the host listener. OR we might be able to have that automatically done using a flag and have the library open a new host/listener if for some reason it has been killed.

[krjaction50]

This would be a server-side thing only. The client just will error out since the server is no longer listening. We just need a public property on the server-side class that shows the status of the connection/socket.