File access frequently by two program

[kth0506]

Hello!

We are developing a project invloving two seperate programs, a bluetooth(BT) connection program and application program(program A). In order to pass received BT data from a bluetooth device, we use file I/O skills, that is saving those data to several 'txt', says data.txt...etc. While the BT program is writing those files, program A will read those files for data processing and displaying. And now we have encountered the following problems.

1> while BT program and program A is running at the same time, the data wrote to those file seems distorted. Let's say, the BT data that is written to the file is '98', but actual value storing in that 'txt' file is '0'.

2> Orginally, BT program writing frequency is 3 times per second, and program A reading frequency is 2 time per second. In this case, the mobile crashed immediately after 2 programs run. After reducing the frequency or reading and writing, the problem happened after serveral seconds. Once the data is distorted, the problem keeps going on.

In addtiton, the constrain here is the fileIO rate cannot be too low and the data receiving rate of BT program cannot be changed, therefore we have no idea how to solve the problems.

Hope that someone can help us...^.^

Thanks in advance!

[Jason Glass]

are both apps reading and writing using the same charset and encoding?

[SymbianLN]

hi, whynot use the Observer-Mode.
1,write BT date into a file
2,writing complete,then notify program A to read data from that file

"BT program writing frequency is 3 times per second, and program A reading frequency is 2 time per second. "
sorry,i think this way isnt the best........
however,if u open a file for reading and writing with read and write shared access, use:
"file.Open(FS,NAME,EFileWrite|EFileShareAny)"
plz.

good luck

[kth0506]

hi, whynot use the Observer-Mode.
1,write BT date into a file
2,writing complete,then notify program A to read data from that file

these things are exactly what i want to do, however i am not familiar about the Observer-Mode, so could u pls post some example code to let me know how to use it..

THX..

[SymbianLN]

i just wrote some code,wish it to be helpful.........
class MObserver
{//Observer class
public:
virtual void WriteComplete() = 0;
}

class CAppA : public CBase , public MObserver
{// Application which read from file
public: // From MObserver
void WriteComplete();
private:
void ConstructL();
CAppB* iAppB;
}

void CAppA::WriteComplete()
{
//Read from file
}

void CAppA::ConstructL()
{
//iAppB is AppB`s pointer;
iAppB->SetObserver(this);
}


class CAppB : public CBase
{//application which write into file
public:
void WriteFileL();
void SetObserver(MObserver* aObserver);
private:
MObserver* iObserver;
}

void CAppB::WriteFileL()
{
//Write into file
iObserver->WriteComplete();// write complete
}
void CAppB::SetObserver(MObserver* aObserver)
{
iObserver = aObserver;
}

good luck

[SymbianLN]

sorry,,,,,,by the way
if u use "file.Open(FS,NAME,EFileWrite|EFileShareAny)"
i think u can do as "BT program writing frequency is 3 times per second, and program A reading frequency is 2 time per second. "

[kth0506]

Thank you, I have use "EShareAny" in the code but the two programs still crash. I am not quite sure about the reason but the BT program indeed give a heavy fileIO loading to the system since BT acutally writing approx. 2 files with frequency 2 times per sec. and 3 other files per 3 sec.

For the "Observer" method, i would like to ask if program A needs to check continuously if BT program finished writing? If yes, there still have chance to crash, but is on that observer file instead.


thank you.

[SymbianLN]

" i would like to ask if program A needs to check continuously if BT program finished writing? "
the answer is "NO" (＾&＾)
when BT program finishes writing,itself(BT) calls programA`s method(WriteComplete) to notify programA that A can read from file.
programA doesnt care if the BT finished writing.

[Paul.Todd]

To be quite honest you are going to have to use something like a Semaphore or Mutex and use that to get a read or write lock on the file, this will prevent overlaps where one proccess is reading and another it writing.

Alternativly you could use the queuing architecture RMsgQueue if you are using OS9
or the Client Server architecture to mediate between the BT and application processes for any version of symbian