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Sending / Receiving Messages

The following guide is only for TCP connections, not for Websocket connections.

For Websocket you send/receive messages based on Websocket standards.

Sending

To send your proto message follow these steps:

  1. Change the proto message object to the byte array by using Google Protocol Buffer SDK for your programming language.
  2. Get the length of the byte array, change it to byte array, reverse it
  3. Send the length + message byte array to the connection stream.

Note

The system architecture is little-endian (that is, little end first), that's why we have to reverse the byte array before reading or writing.

Receiving

To receive Proto messages you have to follow these steps:

  1. Receive the first four bytes, that's the message length, reverse the byte array, and change it to integer.
  2. Use the length and receive that amount of bytes from the stream.
  3. Now you have the full message bytes, use Google Protocol Buffer SDK for your programming language to deserialize the message to ProtoMessage.
  4. Use the ProtoMessage payloadType field to find the actual message type, then deserialize the payload with Google Protocol Buffer SDK to that message type.

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