Multi-Threading with ISnmpMessage classes

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Hi Lex,

You wrote in FAQs that the library is not thread safe

Is this library thread safe? : Not yet. Please use static methods in Messenger class which should be thread safe.

However in one of the older posts

https://sharpsnmplib.codeplex.com/discussions/234718

You said that ISnmpMessage classes can be used in multi-threaded environment if they are spawned and thrown away for each request. Has this changed over the past 3 years? Meaning that is it still safe to use Level-1 ISnmpMessage derived classes in a multi-threaded fashion without locking if they get spawned and thrown away each time?

Original Reported Date: 2013-05-12T15:03:27.63-07:00 Original CodePlex Discussion Thread ID: 443402

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ISnmpMessage derived classes can be viewed as the object representation of raw bytes in the packets,

• They are designed to be immutable once constructed. (If it fails to meet this, please report a bug.)
• Each instance should be independent of another.

And that's why I stated they can use in multi-threaded environment. Since static methods in Messenger class generate such instances under the hood, I think they are thread-safe too.

Regards,

Lex

Original Posted Date: 2013-05-13T21:21:55.077-07:00

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Marked as Answer Date: 2013-10-06T20:18:17.43-07:00