AddressEntry

A scored network address with usage statistics.

Detailed description

AddressEntry wraps a CarrierAddress with metadata including description, creation time, last success/error times, and success/error counts. The score() method ranks addresses for connection attempts.

The statistics are guarded by a mutex, because CommsChannel calls tried() on its thread while the AsyncStore worker of the AddressBook calls toVariantMap() on its thread. Every field is private, and each accessor of a statistic reads it under the mutex. Only tried() changes the statistics. The address, the description and the creation time do not change after construction.

See also CarrierAddress, AddressList, Associate.