Tracking state in Affixes

[aaaaalbert]

What is The Official Way to track connection/flow state using an Affix?

I have tried a few options for a UDP Affix I am writing (add item to the affix_context dict, store attribute with Affix object instance, store as class attribute), but none worked -- class attributes are read-only due to safety restrictions in Repy; for instance attributes, the problem is that each UDP send causes a new Affix object to be created, and so the previously assigned attributes are not available.

Of course I can use a non-Affix related global variable for storing stuff, but this hurts by design.

[monzum]

You should be able to store the information in a class specific dictionary. You can take a look at our FECAffix which stores information from multiple sendmessage() calls and uses to send out extra packets: https://github.com/monzum/affix-repo/blob/beta/affix/affix_components/fecaffix.repy

Note that this method in itself may have some downside.