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UDPServer

Inherits: RefCounted < Object

Helper class to implement a UDP server.

Description

A simple server that opens a UDP socket and returns connected PacketPeerUDP upon receiving new packets. See also PacketPeerUDP.connect_to_host.

After starting the server (listen), you will need to poll it at regular intervals (e.g. inside Node._process) for it to process new packets, delivering them to the appropriate PacketPeerUDP, and taking new connections.

Below a small example of how it can be used:

GDScriptC#

# server_node.gd
class_name ServerNode
extends Node

var server := UDPServer.new()
var peers = []

func _ready():
    server.listen(4242)

func _process(delta):
    server.poll() # Important!
    if server.is_connection_available():
        var peer: PacketPeerUDP = server.take_connection()
        var packet = peer.get_packet()
        print("Accepted peer: %s:%s" % [peer.get_packet_ip(), peer.get_packet_port()])
        print("Received data: %s" % [packet.get_string_from_utf8()])
        # Reply so it knows we received the message.
        peer.put_packet(packet)
        # Keep a reference so we can keep contacting the remote peer.
        peers.append(peer)

    for i in range(0, peers.size()):
        pass # Do something with the connected peers.