Network API

[Raekye]

Hi, I'm gonna try to draft an API for UDP support. I think the last related discussion here was on page 6

The code can't be split without exposing cNetworkSingleton - most of the implementation relies on its internals. And I don't want to expose it, since it has libevent stuff in it, so we'd need to put libevent dependencies in the header.

I don't think the Network stuff is gonna grow much more. It's pretty much complete on the TCP side, and the UDP side can have a separate file of its own - after all, libevent doesn't have such a high level support for it anyway.

Any updates/pointers on what I should do? Otherwise I'll get back when I have something working and ask for feedback (probably will need a lot of changes )

[xoft]

I think a better course of actions would be to try to describe the API first - what would the functions be, what names and params for the callbacks etc. You don't want to end up rewriting the thing three times over

[Raekye]

Makes sense, I'll get back hopefully soon when I get a chance to look and think through it carefully (test tomorrow)

Update: been really busy this week. Hopefully will get some progress and results next week

[xoft]

Tell me what you think about the cNetwork et al Lua API documentation, is it sufficient?
http://mc-server.xoft.cz/LuaAPI/cNetwork.html

[Howaner]

Tell me what you think about the cNetwork et al Lua API documentation, is it sufficient?
http://mc-server.xoft.cz/LuaAPI/cNetwork.html

I miss a byte buffer
I need to read var ints / shorts / ...

[worktycho]

What do you need VarInts for? I can understand the fixed length types but VarInts seemed like a Minecraft specific encoding. Lack of helpers for buffering and reading values is an issue. I can agree that exposing the non-Minecraft protocol spercific parts of cByteBuffer is probably now a good idea.

[Howaner]

What do you need VarInts for? I can understand the fixed length types but VarInts seemed like a Minecraft specific encoding. Lack of helpers for buffering and reading values is an issue. I can agree that exposing the non-Minecraft protocol spercific parts of cByteBuffer is probably now a good idea.

I will ping a minecraft server.

[xoft]

Network API can do a client TLS on a TCP link now: cTCPLink:StartTLSClient()

[NiLSPACE]

So what's our first network plugin going to be? I was looking into hooking into Cleverbot, but I didn't find an API.

[xoft]

The first network plugin is already present at the base repo - the NetworkTest plugin
But yes, it's not something anyone would want to install on their server, so let's ask about the first "useful" plugin instead.