Optimize Trading by Commiting Changes to Offered Items in Poll

[teliosdev]

Make AddItem and RemoveItem only modify the local copy, and when Poll gets called, update steam with the local copy of data. Can we do it?

[Philipp15b]

Yes We Can! :smirk:

[Philipp15b]

So after a bit of thinking I came to the conclusion that it just doesn't make that much sense. If we delay those calls,

1. We would create lots of boilerplate code where we duplicate method parameters in classes etc. to store them
2. Every single item will be added just as slow as before, because bulk adding does not exist
3. We can even slow calls down by 800ms because they are only called later

I think that you maybe search for a solution to send a chat message while adding an item to the trade? This is much easier with C#'s async. This gives us the event loop that we need. Now that this is available in Mono we can also use it in SteamBot.

[teliosdev]

Bulk adding does not exist.

you need say no more. Making the request async seems to be the best choice, and if it needs to be sync, we can add the function for that.