Add run-time information to CocoaHTTPServer using custom Response class

[besi]

I have the following code to start my own Cocoa HTTP Server. In order to manually handle the responses I have created my custom HTTPConnection class named PictureHTTPConnection

self.httpServer = [[HTTPServer alloc]init];
self.httpServer.type = @"_http._tcp.";
self.httpServer.name = @"MyBonjour Name";
self.httpServer.connectionClass = [PictureHTTPConnection class];

The problem here is that the PictureHTTPConnection class needs some information in order to handle the HTTP connections. However, I only provide the class and therefore I don't have a reference to the instance. I could do something with global data but this is not very good programming practise.

The best way I can think of is setting the PictureHTTPConnection's delegate to the UIApplicationDelegate so that it can answer any callbacks. :-(

[robbiehanson]

When a new connection is accepted from the HTTPServer, it creates a new instance of PictureHTTPConnection. In other words, it does this:

newConnection = [[PictureHTTPConnection alloc] initWithAsyncSocket:newSocket configuration:[self config]];

You have a reference to the instance within the PictureHTTPConnection class (via self).

[zakdances]

Why aren't HTTPConnection classes instantiated with a delegate method instead of just handing over the class to httpServer .connectionClass? That way we'd be able to assign to assign a delegate to HTTPConnection and move logic to a controller of our choice instead of having no way to reference anything except self...