[tor-bugs] #2091 [Vidalia]: Support ControlSocket as well as ControlPort

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#2091: Support ControlSocket as well as ControlPort
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 Reporter:  arma         |       Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:     
Component:  Vidalia      |     Version:     
 Keywords:               |      Parent:     
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Comment(by chiiph):

 Replying to [comment:8 edmanm]:
 >   4. [MAJOR] The code common to both ControlSocket.cpp and
 ControlPort.cpp needs to be refactored out into your base class. It makes
 no sense to have huge chunks of identical code in both places,
 particularly since they both inherit from the same abstract base class.

 The main problem with this is that the only parent class in common that
 QLocalSocket and QTcpSocket have is QIODevice, but it has abstract
 definitions of the most important methods, so I can't make the
 AbstractControlMethod class implement them using a QIODevice that later on
 is instanciated with a QLocalSocket or QTcpSocket, because they all use
 readLine or methods like that that are pure virtual in QIODevice. Can you
 see any alternative? I had a lot of problems with this when I was planning
 the whole hierarchy change to add ControlSocket.

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