Fix message handling in select requests

percept_db used to send results in untagged messages, and use
a non selective receive to extract them. When percept is used
from the shell process, this can confuse other messages with
the actual result.

Add a tag to the message to be {result, Result}.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/percept/src/percept_db.erl b/lib/percept/src/percept_db.erl
index e827b5345c..61b68ce44f 100644
--- a/lib/percept/src/percept_db.erl
+++ b/lib/percept/src/percept_db.erl
@@ -167,14 +167,14 @@ insert(Trace) ->
 
 select(Query) -> 
     percept_db ! {select, self(), Query},
-    receive Match -> Match end.
+    receive {result, Match} -> Match end.
 
 %% @spec select(atom(), list()) -> Result
 %% @equiv select({Table,Options}) 
 
 select(Table, Options) -> 
     percept_db ! {select, self(), {Table, Options}},
-    receive Match -> Match end.
+    receive {result, Match} -> Match end.
 
 %% @spec consolidate() -> Result
 %% @doc Checks timestamp and state-flow inconsistencies in the
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ loop_percept_db() ->
 	    insert_trace(clean_trace(Trace)),
 	    loop_percept_db();
 	{select, Pid, Query} ->
-	    Pid ! select_query(Query),
+	    Pid ! {result, select_query(Query)},
 	    loop_percept_db();
 	{action, stop} -> 
 	    stopped;
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ loop_percept_db() ->
 	    loop_percept_db();
         {operate, Pid, {Table, {Fun, Start}}} ->
 	    Result = ets:foldl(Fun, Start, Table),
-	    Pid ! Result,
+	    Pid ! {result, Result},
 	    loop_percept_db();
 	Unhandled -> 
 	    io:format("loop_percept_db, unhandled query: ~p~n", [Unhandled]),