NAME ^

TCPStream

SYNOPSIS ^

  .sub main :main
      load_bytecode 'library/tcpstream.pir'

      .local pmc stream
      stream = new 'TCPStream'
      stream.'connect'("www.google.com", 80)

      stream.'say'("GET / HTTP/1.0")
      stream.'say'("User-agent: Parrot")
      stream.'say'("")

      $S0 = stream.'slurp'()
      print $S0

      stream.'close'()
  .end

DESCRIPTION ^

This is a high-level sockets library designed to mimic Tcl's socket builtins. As such, it uses print and say instaed of send and readline and slurp instead of recv.

VTABLE FUNCTIONS ^

init
Iniitialize a TCPStream object (create a socket and a buffer).
init_pmc
Initialize a TCPStream object from an already pre-existing socket. This can be use to create servers, among other things.
get_bool
Returns whether or not this socket has data waiting to be read.

METHODS ^

void close()
Closes the socket.
void connect(string host, int port)
Connects to a host/port.Throws an exception if unable to connect.
void flush()
string readline()
Reads and returns up to (and excluding) an end-of-line character and discards the end-of-line character.
void say(string msg)
Print msg and an end-of-line character to the socket.
string slurp()
Return all the data in the socket.

AUTHOR ^

Matt Diephouse <matt@diephouse.com>.


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