Added dummy methods to the ana implementation to achieve compilation.

doc/ana/description.tex

@@ -72,10 +72,11 @@ whatsoever.
 \section{Introduction}
 
 \textbf{Ana} (stands for Asynchronous  Network API) is an API designed
-to  help   you  develop  server  and  client   applications  using  an
-asynchronous model  (i.e.  non-blocking operations .) By  using it the
-progammer doesn't need  to pay too much attention  to the network code
-itself but can concentrate on other features relevant to the program.
+to help you develop network applications with server and client parts.
+To implement  this functionality, the  API uses an  asynchronous model
+(i.e.  non-blocking operations .) This way, the progammer doesn't need
+to  pay  too  much  attention  to  the network  code  itself  but  can
+concentrate on other features relevant to the program.
 
 Also, \ana \ comes with  an accompanying implementation.  Hence, it is
 also a library that implements  the API features.  For example, MPI is
@@ -225,6 +226,8 @@ The main classes to be used from the \ana \ API are:
   connect to  a running server.  To create a  pointer to an  object of
   this type use the \ana::\texttt{create\_client} function.
 
+\item[ana::timer] :  An asynchronous deadline  timer that can  be used
+  for general  purposes.
 \end{description}
 
 \subsection{Main Interfaces}
@@ -269,6 +272,16 @@ Here are a few examples of how to construct time durations:
 \end{tabular}
 \end{center}
 
+There are  two ways  of creating  timers, via an  \ana \  component or
+using the type directly. You should always try to use ana's server and
+client     objects    to    create     them    via     the    function
+\ana::\texttt{create\_timer}.
+
+The easy way is using  the type directly to declare regular variables.
+However, this  burdens the  memory greatly in  comparison of  using an
+\ana \  component (either  server or client)  to create the  timer for
+you.
+
 \section{Using the API}
 
 \subsection{Important Recommendations}

src/network_ana.cpp

@@ -234,6 +234,17 @@ namespace network {
     }
 
 
+    void add_bandwidth_out(const std::string& /*packet_type*/, size_t /*len*/)
+    {
+        //TODO: implement? (apparently called from network_worker only
+    }
+
+    void add_bandwidth_in(const std::string& /*packet_type*/, size_t /*len*/)
+    {
+        //TODO: implement? (apparently called from network_worker only
+    }
+
+
     std::string get_bandwidth_stats_all()
     {
         return std::string(""); //TODO: implement

src/network_manager_ana.cpp

@@ -811,18 +811,14 @@ size_t ana_network_manager::number_of_connections() const
     return total;
 }
 
-/*
-std::string ana_network_manager::compress_config( const config& cfg)
+
+std::string ana_network_manager::compress_config( const config& cfg )
 {
-    std::stringstream out;
-    boost::iostreams::filtering_stream<boost::iostreams::output> filter;
-    filter.push(boost::iostreams::gzip_compressor());
-    filter.push(out);
-    write(filter, cfg);
-    out.flush();
+    std::ostringstream out;
+    compress_config( cfg, out );
     return out.str( );
 }
-*/
+
 
 void ana_network_manager::compress_config( const config& cfg, std::ostringstream& out)
 {
@@ -845,11 +841,7 @@ size_t ana_network_manager::send_all( const config& cfg, bool zipped )
 {
     std::cout << "DEBUG: Sending to everybody. " << (zipped ? "Zipped":"Raw") << "\n";
 
-    std::ostringstream out;
-    compress_config( cfg, out);
-
-    const std::string output_string = out.str();
-//     const std::string output_string = compress_config(cfg);
+    const std::string output_string = compress_config(cfg);
 
     std::set<ana_component*>::iterator it;
 
@@ -882,11 +874,7 @@ size_t ana_network_manager::send( network::connection connection_num , const con
 
     std::cout << "DEBUG: Single send...\n";
 
-    std::ostringstream out;
-    compress_config( cfg, out);
-
-    const std::string output_string = out.str();
-//     const std::string output_string = compress_config(cfg);
+    const std::string output_string = compress_config(cfg);
 
 
     return send_raw_data( output_string.c_str(), output_string.size(), connection_num );
@@ -938,11 +926,7 @@ void ana_network_manager::send_all_except(const config& cfg, network::connection
 {
     std::cout << "DEBUG: send_all_except " << connection_num << "\n";
 
-    std::ostringstream out;
-    compress_config( cfg, out);
-
-    const std::string output_string = out.str();
-//     const std::string output_string = compress_config(cfg);
+    const std::string output_string = compress_config(cfg);
 
 
     ana_component_set::iterator it;

src/network_manager_ana.hpp

@@ -485,7 +485,8 @@ class ana_network_manager : public ana::listener_handler,
          * @param out : The output stream as output.
          */
         void compress_config( const config& cfg, std::ostringstream& out);
-//         std::string compress_config( const config& cfg);
+
+        std::string compress_config( const config& cfg);
 
         /**
          * Read a config object from an input buffer.