PacketPeer

Inherits: Reference < Object

Inherited By: PacketPeerStream, PacketPeerUDP, NetworkedMultiplayerPeer

Category: Core

Brief Description

Abstraction and base class for packet-based protocols.

Member Variables

  • bool allow_object_decoding

Description

PacketPeer is an abstraction and base class for packet-based protocols (such as UDP). It provides an API for sending and receiving packets both as raw data or variables. This makes it easy to transfer data over a protocol, without having to encode data as low level bytes or having to worry about network ordering.

Member Function Description

  • int get_available_packet_count ( ) const

Return the number of packets currently available in the ring-buffer.

Get a raw packet.

  • int get_packet_error ( ) const

Return the error state of the last packet received (via get_packet and get_var).

Get a Variant.

Send a raw packet.

Send a Variant as a packet.