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Text based socket connection, using a UNIX socket in C++. Looks up hostname and port, checks if it can connect, sets timeouts. Corner cases of data spanning across socket reads should be covered.
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#ifndef CONNECTION_H | |
#define CONNECTION_H | |
#include <netdb.h> | |
#include <stdexcept> | |
#include <string> | |
#include <sstream> | |
#include <sys/socket.h> | |
#include <deque> | |
#define BUFSIZE 128 | |
class Connection { | |
public: | |
Connection(std::string host, int port) : delimiter_('\n') { | |
// Resolve host | |
addrinfo* matching_ai; | |
if(getaddrinfo(host.c_str(), std::to_string(port).c_str(), NULL, &matching_ai) != 0) { | |
throw std::runtime_error("Could not resolve address "+host+":"+std::to_string(port)); | |
} | |
while(matching_ai->ai_family != AF_INET && matching_ai->ai_socktype != SOCK_STREAM) { | |
matching_ai = matching_ai->ai_next; | |
if(matching_ai == NULL) { | |
throw std::runtime_error("Can not connect to "+host+":"+std::to_string(port)+" using TCP over IPv4."); | |
} | |
} | |
// Create socket | |
socket_fd_ = socket(matching_ai->ai_family, matching_ai->ai_socktype, matching_ai->ai_protocol); | |
if(socket_fd_ == -1) { | |
throw std::runtime_error("Could not open socket."); | |
} | |
// Connect | |
if(connect(socket_fd_, matching_ai->ai_addr, matching_ai->ai_addrlen) == -1) { | |
throw std::runtime_error("Could not connect socket."+std::to_string(errno)); | |
} | |
// Set timeout | |
timeval timeout; | |
timeout.tv_sec = 0; | |
timeout.tv_usec = 500000; // 0.5 seconds | |
setSocketOption(SO_RCVTIMEO, timeout); | |
setSocketOption(SO_SNDTIMEO, timeout); | |
} | |
~Connection() { | |
close(socket_fd_); | |
} | |
template<class T> | |
void setSocketOption(int option, T value) { | |
int result = setsockopt(socket_fd_, SOL_SOCKET, option, (const void *)&value , sizeof(value)); | |
if(result == -1) { | |
throw std::runtime_error("Error during setsockopt."); | |
} | |
} | |
void send(std::string buffer) { | |
if(buffer.back() != '\n') { | |
buffer += '\n'; | |
} | |
ssize_t sent = ::send(socket_fd_, buffer.c_str(), buffer.size(), 0); | |
if(sent == -1) { | |
throw std::runtime_error("Send error."); | |
} | |
} | |
std::string recv() | |
{ | |
if(!messages_.empty()) { | |
std::string msg(messages_.front()); | |
messages_.pop_front(); | |
return msg; | |
} else { | |
memset(buffer_, 0, BUFSIZE); | |
ssize_t received = ::recv(socket_fd_, buffer_, BUFSIZE, 0); | |
if(received == -1) { | |
throw std::runtime_error("Receive error."); | |
} | |
std::stringstream lines(buffer_); | |
for(std::string msg; getline(lines, msg, delimiter_); messages_.push_back(msg)); | |
if(!last_stub_.empty()) { | |
std::string next_msg(messages_.front()); | |
messages_.pop_front(); | |
next_msg = last_stub_+next_msg; | |
messages_.push_front(next_msg); | |
} | |
last_stub_.clear(); | |
// A final delimiter is not parsed as a line | |
// check if the buffer ends on a delimiter | |
if(buffer_[received - 1] != delimiter_) { | |
last_stub_ = messages_.back(); | |
messages_.pop_back(); | |
} | |
return recv(); | |
} | |
} | |
private: | |
int socket_fd_; | |
char buffer_[BUFSIZE]; | |
char delimiter_; | |
std::deque<std::string>messages_; | |
std::string last_stub_; | |
}; | |
#endif // CONNECTION_H |
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