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GDatagramBased is required by GDtlsClientConnection, GDtlsConnection and GDtlsServerConnection.
Description
A GDatagramBased is a networking interface for representing datagram-based communications. It is a more or less direct mapping of the core parts of the BSD socket API in a portable GObject interface. It is implemented by GSocket, which wraps the UNIX socket API on UNIX and winsock2 on Windows.
GDatagramBased is entirely platform independent, and is intended to be used alongside higher-level networking APIs such as GIOStream.
It uses vectored scatter/gather I/O by default, allowing for many messages
to be sent or received in a single call. Where possible, implementations of
the interface should take advantage of vectored I/O to minimise processing
or system calls. For example, GSocket uses recvmmsg()
and sendmmsg()
where
possible. Callers should take advantage of scatter/gather I/O (the use of
multiple buffers per message) to avoid unnecessary copying of data to
assemble or disassemble a message.
Each GDatagramBased operation has a timeout parameter which may be negative
for blocking behaviour, zero for non-blocking behaviour, or positive for
timeout behaviour. A blocking operation blocks until finished or there is an
error. A non-blocking operation will return immediately with a
G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
error if it cannot make progress. A timeout operation
will block until the operation is complete or the timeout expires; if the
timeout expires it will return what progress it made, or
G_IO_ERROR_TIMED_OUT
if no progress was made. To know when a call would
successfully run you can call g_datagram_based_condition_check()
or
g_datagram_based_condition_wait()
. You can also use
g_datagram_based_create_source()
and attach it to a GMainContext to get
callbacks when I/O is possible.
When running a non-blocking operation applications should always be able to
handle getting a G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
error even when some other function
said that I/O was possible. This can easily happen in case of a race
condition in the application, but it can also happen for other reasons. For
instance, on Windows a socket is always seen as writable until a write
returns G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
.
As with GSocket, GDatagramBaseds can be either connection oriented (for example, SCTP) or connectionless (for example, UDP). GDatagramBaseds must be datagram-based, not stream-based. The interface does not cover connection establishment — use methods on the underlying type to establish a connection before sending and receiving data through the GDatagramBased API. For connectionless socket types the target/source address is specified or received in each I/O operation.
Like most other APIs in GLib, GDatagramBased is not inherently thread safe. To use a GDatagramBased concurrently from multiple threads, you must implement your own locking.
Functions
GDatagramBasedSourceFunc ()
gboolean (*GDatagramBasedSourceFunc) (GDatagramBased *datagram_based
,GIOCondition condition
,gpointer user_data
);
This is the function type of the callback used for the GSource
returned by g_datagram_based_create_source()
.
Parameters
datagram_based |
the GDatagramBased |
|
condition |
the current condition at the source fired |
|
user_data |
data passed in by the user |
Since: 2.48
g_datagram_based_receive_messages ()
gint g_datagram_based_receive_messages (GDatagramBased *datagram_based
,GInputMessage *messages
,guint num_messages
,gint flags
,gint64 timeout
,GCancellable *cancellable
,GError **error
);
Receive one or more data messages from datagram_based
in one go.
messages
must point to an array of GInputMessage structs and
num_messages
must be the length of this array. Each GInputMessage
contains a pointer to an array of GInputVector structs describing the
buffers that the data received in each message will be written to.
flags
modify how all messages are received. The commonly available
arguments for this are available in the GSocketMsgFlags enum, but the
values there are the same as the system values, and the flags
are passed in as-is, so you can pass in system-specific flags too. These
flags affect the overall receive operation. Flags affecting individual
messages are returned in GInputMessage.flags.
The other members of GInputMessage are treated as described in its documentation.
If timeout
is negative the call will block until num_messages
have been
received, the connection is closed remotely (EOS), cancellable
is cancelled,
or an error occurs.
If timeout
is 0 the call will return up to num_messages
without blocking,
or G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
if no messages are queued in the operating system
to be received.
If timeout
is positive the call will block on the same conditions as if
timeout
were negative. If the timeout is reached
before any messages are received, G_IO_ERROR_TIMED_OUT
is returned,
otherwise it will return the number of messages received before timing out.
(Note: This is effectively the behaviour of MSG_WAITFORONE
with
recvmmsg()
.)
To be notified when messages are available, wait for the G_IO_IN
condition.
Note though that you may still receive G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
from
g_datagram_based_receive_messages()
even if you were previously notified of a
G_IO_IN
condition.
If the remote peer closes the connection, any messages queued in the
underlying receive buffer will be returned, and subsequent calls to
g_datagram_based_receive_messages()
will return 0 (with no error set).
If the connection is shut down or closed (by calling g_socket_close()
or
g_socket_shutdown()
with shutdown_read
set, if it’s a GSocket, for
example), all calls to this function will return G_IO_ERROR_CLOSED
.
On error -1 is returned and error
is set accordingly. An error will only
be returned if zero messages could be received; otherwise the number of
messages successfully received before the error will be returned. If
cancellable
is cancelled, G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED
is returned as with any
other error.
Parameters
datagram_based |
||
messages |
an array of GInputMessage structs. |
[array length=num_messages] |
num_messages |
the number of elements in |
|
flags |
an int containing GSocketMsgFlags flags for the overall operation |
|
timeout |
the maximum time (in microseconds) to wait, 0 to not block, or -1 to block indefinitely |
|
cancellable |
a |
[nullable] |
error |
return location for a GError |
Returns
number of messages received, or -1 on error. Note that the number
of messages received may be smaller than num_messages
if timeout
is
zero or positive, if the peer closed the connection, or if num_messages
was larger than UIO_MAXIOV
(1024), in which case the caller may re-try
to receive the remaining messages.
Since: 2.48
g_datagram_based_send_messages ()
gint g_datagram_based_send_messages (GDatagramBased *datagram_based
,GOutputMessage *messages
,guint num_messages
,gint flags
,gint64 timeout
,GCancellable *cancellable
,GError **error
);
Send one or more data messages from datagram_based
in one go.
messages
must point to an array of GOutputMessage structs and
num_messages
must be the length of this array. Each GOutputMessage
contains an address to send the data to, and a pointer to an array of
GOutputVector structs to describe the buffers that the data to be sent
for each message will be gathered from.
flags
modify how the message is sent. The commonly available arguments
for this are available in the GSocketMsgFlags enum, but the
values there are the same as the system values, and the flags
are passed in as-is, so you can pass in system-specific flags too.
The other members of GOutputMessage are treated as described in its documentation.
If timeout
is negative the call will block until num_messages
have been
sent, cancellable
is cancelled, or an error occurs.
If timeout
is 0 the call will send up to num_messages
without blocking,
or will return G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
if there is no space to send messages.
If timeout
is positive the call will block on the same conditions as if
timeout
were negative. If the timeout is reached before any messages are
sent, G_IO_ERROR_TIMED_OUT
is returned, otherwise it will return the number
of messages sent before timing out.
To be notified when messages can be sent, wait for the G_IO_OUT
condition.
Note though that you may still receive G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
from
g_datagram_based_send_messages()
even if you were previously notified of a
G_IO_OUT
condition. (On Windows in particular, this is very common due to
the way the underlying APIs work.)
If the connection is shut down or closed (by calling g_socket_close()
or
g_socket_shutdown()
with shutdown_write
set, if it’s a GSocket, for
example), all calls to this function will return G_IO_ERROR_CLOSED
.
On error -1 is returned and error
is set accordingly. An error will only
be returned if zero messages could be sent; otherwise the number of messages
successfully sent before the error will be returned. If cancellable
is
cancelled, G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED
is returned as with any other error.
Parameters
datagram_based |
||
messages |
an array of GOutputMessage structs. |
[array length=num_messages] |
num_messages |
the number of elements in |
|
flags |
an int containing GSocketMsgFlags flags |
|
timeout |
the maximum time (in microseconds) to wait, 0 to not block, or -1 to block indefinitely |
|
cancellable |
a |
[nullable] |
error |
return location for a GError |
Returns
number of messages sent, or -1 on error. Note that the number of
messages sent may be smaller than num_messages
if timeout
is zero
or positive, or if num_messages
was larger than UIO_MAXIOV
(1024), in
which case the caller may re-try to send the remaining messages.
Since: 2.48
g_datagram_based_create_source ()
GSource * g_datagram_based_create_source (GDatagramBased *datagram_based
,GIOCondition condition
,GCancellable *cancellable
);
Creates a GSource that can be attached to a GMainContext to monitor for
the availability of the specified condition
on the GDatagramBased. The
GSource keeps a reference to the datagram_based
.
The callback on the source is of the GDatagramBasedSourceFunc type.
It is meaningless to specify G_IO_ERR
or G_IO_HUP
in condition
; these
conditions will always be reported in the callback if they are true.
If non-NULL
, cancellable
can be used to cancel the source, which will
cause the source to trigger, reporting the current condition (which is
likely 0 unless cancellation happened at the same time as a condition
change). You can check for this in the callback using
g_cancellable_is_cancelled()
.
Parameters
datagram_based |
||
condition |
a GIOCondition mask to monitor |
|
cancellable |
a GCancellable. |
[nullable] |
Since: 2.48
g_datagram_based_condition_check ()
GIOCondition g_datagram_based_condition_check (GDatagramBased *datagram_based
,GIOCondition condition
);
Checks on the readiness of datagram_based
to perform operations. The
operations specified in condition
are checked for and masked against the
currently-satisfied conditions on datagram_based
. The result is returned.
G_IO_IN
will be set in the return value if data is available to read with
g_datagram_based_receive_messages()
, or if the connection is closed remotely
(EOS); and if the datagram_based has not been closed locally using some
implementation-specific method (such as g_socket_close()
or
g_socket_shutdown()
with shutdown_read
set, if it’s a GSocket).
If the connection is shut down or closed (by calling g_socket_close()
or
g_socket_shutdown()
with shutdown_read
set, if it’s a GSocket, for
example), all calls to this function will return G_IO_ERROR_CLOSED
.
G_IO_OUT
will be set if it is expected that at least one byte can be sent
using g_datagram_based_send_messages()
without blocking. It will not be set
if the datagram_based has been closed locally.
G_IO_HUP
will be set if the connection has been closed locally.
G_IO_ERR
will be set if there was an asynchronous error in transmitting data
previously enqueued using g_datagram_based_send_messages()
.
Note that on Windows, it is possible for an operation to return
G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
even immediately after
g_datagram_based_condition_check()
has claimed that the GDatagramBased is
ready for writing. Rather than calling g_datagram_based_condition_check()
and
then writing to the GDatagramBased if it succeeds, it is generally better to
simply try writing right away, and try again later if the initial attempt
returns G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK
.
It is meaningless to specify G_IO_ERR
or G_IO_HUP
in condition
; these
conditions will always be set in the output if they are true. Apart from
these flags, the output is guaranteed to be masked by condition
.
This call never blocks.
Since: 2.48
g_datagram_based_condition_wait ()
gboolean g_datagram_based_condition_wait (GDatagramBased *datagram_based
,GIOCondition condition
,gint64 timeout
,GCancellable *cancellable
,GError **error
);
Waits for up to timeout
microseconds for condition to become true on
datagram_based
. If the condition is met, TRUE
is returned.
If cancellable
is cancelled before the condition is met, or if timeout
is
reached before the condition is met, then FALSE
is returned and error
is
set appropriately (G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED
or G_IO_ERROR_TIMED_OUT
).
Parameters
datagram_based |
||
condition |
a GIOCondition mask to wait for |
|
timeout |
the maximum time (in microseconds) to wait, 0 to not block, or -1 to block indefinitely |
|
cancellable |
a GCancellable. |
[nullable] |
error |
return location for a GError |
Since: 2.48
Types and Values
GDatagramBased
typedef struct _GDatagramBased GDatagramBased;
Interface for socket-like objects with datagram semantics.
Since: 2.48
struct GDatagramBasedInterface
struct GDatagramBasedInterface { GTypeInterface g_iface; /* Virtual table */ gint (*receive_messages) (GDatagramBased *datagram_based, GInputMessage *messages, guint num_messages, gint flags, gint64 timeout, GCancellable *cancellable, GError **error); gint (*send_messages) (GDatagramBased *datagram_based, GOutputMessage *messages, guint num_messages, gint flags, gint64 timeout, GCancellable *cancellable, GError **error); GSource *(*create_source) (GDatagramBased *datagram_based, GIOCondition condition, GCancellable *cancellable); GIOCondition (*condition_check) (GDatagramBased *datagram_based, GIOCondition condition); gboolean (*condition_wait) (GDatagramBased *datagram_based, GIOCondition condition, gint64 timeout, GCancellable *cancellable, GError **error); };
Provides an interface for socket-like objects which have datagram semantics, following the Berkeley sockets API. The interface methods are thin wrappers around the corresponding virtual methods, and no pre-processing of inputs is implemented — so implementations of this API must handle all functionality documented in the interface methods.
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Since: 2.48