Now you can't use the same syntax as you would for a method to
implement a property as whole, instead you need to specify the
getter and/or setter explicitly. This is to allow parent classes
to expand their properties without altering behavior of the child
classes.
UDP client has no socket on its own, so it can't be marked as
close-on-exec, however failing to resolve the method is bad as
confuses the user.
Instead provide a method that checks if the setting is different from
parent, in such case provide a meaningful message. Otherwise just be
quiet.
This was a huge work, but now UDP is usable as seen in the examples.
Instead of relying on 'connect()', just do 'sendto()' and 'recvfrom()'
as they are universal. Multicast address can only be connected in
IPv4, IPv6 wasn't working and I'm not sure the IPv4 is portable to
other platforms.
Dialer will auto-join multicast groups is the dialed address is
one. Multicast properties such as time to live (hops) and loopback can
be configured. When joining multicast groups, the local
address/interface can be configured by 'IP@IFACE' format, with
'@IFACE' being optional.
Dialers will now auto-bind, so it can receive data as dialers are
expected to be bi-directional. One can manually specify the binding
address if there is such need.
Since datagrams must be read in their full size, otherwise the
remaining bits are dropped, expose next_datagram_size_query() in both
Efl.Net.Socket.Udp and Efl.Net.Server.Udp.Client.
To finalize UDP for real we need to introduce an 'Efl_Net_Ip_Address'
structure to serve as both IPv4 and IPv6 and expose 'sendto()' and
'recvfrom()'. These will come later as this commit is already too big.
This is the initial UDP server that works similarly to the TCP one,
however under the hood it's widely different since the socket is
reused for all "clients", thus needs a new Efl.Net.Server.Udp.Client
(Efl.Net.Socket) as Efl.Net.Socket.Udp exposes the fd and options such
as 'cork', which would interfere in other clients.
The main socket will read the packets and find an existing client to
feed it. If no client exists, then it will create one if not overr
limit. Since there is no kernel-queuing as done by listen()/accept(),
the 'no reject' case will just accept the client anyway.
Next commits will improve UDP server handling with some advanced
features:
- join multicast groups
- bind to a specific interface (SO_BINDTODEVICE)
- block packets going out of local network (SO_DONTROUTE)
- specify priorities (SO_PRIORITY)
Cedric BAIL
Xavi Artigas
Andy Williams
Daniel Kolesa
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
Stefan Schmidt