nklein software

I’ve spent the last few hours dusting off my Common Lisp Growl client library. The last time I worked on it was before the Mac Growl Application supported GNTP (Growl Notification Transport Protocol).

Today, working on it, I’m not quite sure what’s up, but I am not succeeding in communicating with the server using encryption. I’ll have to look more closely. Last time that I worked on it, I extended Ironclad, but I never got those changes pushed fully into Ironclad’s main line. But, I think I’m using the same version of Ironclad that I was using when I tested against the Windows Growl Application. *shrug*

I’ve also run into a snag with the Callbacks. Essentially, your Lisp program could get a callback when the user has clicked on your Growl notification. This actually works except for the fact that I am calling READ-SEQUENCE into a buffer that is longer than the message. The server, I believe, is supposed to close the socket after the callback. But, it does not. So, I am stuck waiting for more bytes that will never come.

Now, I either have to do one of the following:

• refactor it to use READ-LINE instead
• switch from using USocket to using IOLib (and hope that :dont-wait works as expected)
• extend USocket to support SOCKET-RECEIVE even on TCP sockets

Anyone have a preference?