Re: Communicate over TCP/IP

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Giovanni Campagna
<scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> 2012/9/13 Baptiste Saleil <baptiste saleil gmail com>:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Just a simple question :
>> I'm writing an extension for the shell.
>> So, what's the best way to communicate over TCP/IP with this extension ?
>
> Have a look at Gio: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/
> It includes GSocket, wrapping the low-level BSD sockets, and higher
> level wrappers such as GSocketClient and GSocketConnection.
> Once you have that, you can get a GSocketInputStream /
> GSocketOutputStream, wrap it with a GDataInputStream /
> GDataOutputStream for buffering and formatting.
> If you're doing binary communications, you probably need to target
> 3.6, as many operations did not support GBytes in 3.4.

That's not quite true. We enable binary strings, and gjs had
"byteArray" since forever.

> Giovanni
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  Jasper