[tor-dev] Proposal: Controller events to better understand connection/circuit usage

Damian Johnson atagar at torproject.org
Tue Feb 12 03:06:37 UTC 2013


> But I wonder why we would
> handle CellType differently and not turn that into an enumeration, too.

Certainly could. I left the CellType alone (both leaving it as
lowercase and a string definition) because it's a sub-mapping and
hence we don't have any precedent for those. On reflection I agree
with you, an uppercase enum would be more consistent.

> The P and N come from the Tor code, and I guess they stand for next and
> previous.  We can also call them AppWard and ExitWard, like in
> AddedAppWar or TimeExitWard, if that makes it easier to understand.

I'm not sure what 'previous' and 'next' are in reference to, and
AppWard and ExitWard aren't any more illuminating. That said, I'm not
the target audience for these events so if you think any of those are
good descriptions for the users of these events then go for it. :)


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