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hwoodward / Remote-Card-Games

Program for playing card games online/remotely. Goal is to play a game of hand and foot with multiple groups in different locations.
MIT License
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Response to player crashing #86

Closed hwoodward closed 4 years ago

hwoodward commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug When a player crashes out and disconnects from the server we get stuck when it reaches there turn (see #12 for plans on how to proceed if they quit and aren't coming back). We also have NO mechanism for allowing them to reconnect.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Start a game with two clients
  2. Disconnect one of the clients
  3. Try to reconnect

Expected behavior We want to save a status and reconnect ability for the clients. Ideally knowing their name or a code given on startup would allow you to reconnect. We also want them to come back with all their information intact.

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hwoodward commented 4 years ago

Ideas: On server side disconnect during an active game - keep the player object with all the status around. On client side don't quit - try to reconnect with a saved code from the server

On server getting a connection request during an active game - look for the 'reconnect code' information in the connect request and verify it.

hwoodward commented 4 years ago

Also look into if podsixnet has any options for handling a weaker connection. (I know they don't yet allow UDP communication)

hwoodward commented 4 years ago

PodSixNet doesn't seem to have any current options to help with this. We will have to see how common it is to get a sense of what is 'good enough' for a fix.