TinySockets

TinySockets

Tiny object-oriented header-only sockets library It supports both UDP and TCP

Project Structure

Connections

There are Socket and Connection classes. You can inherit from Connection class and override << and >> operators for every class you want to transfer. Socket classes are not for direct use.

Communicators

There are TCP and UDP client and server template classes.
You can use them with your Connection class.

Utils

There are SocketException class

Tests

Tests for Communicators Now there are only Send/Recv tests

Main Classes description

Connection

Just inherit from Connection class and implement methods '>>' '<<' for your struct or class

Then use this class as a type in TCP/UDP/Client/Server templates.

Server and client returns Connection object, when the connection is established
(methods AcceptConnection() for Server classes and Connect() for Client classes)

Clients and servers

Every Client has TemplateConnection Connect(const std::string ip, const int port)

Every Server class has TemplateConnection AcceptConnection()

TCPServer

It binds one socket and listens to incoming connections.
When a new connection request comes,
it opens a new socket via accept() and creates a new connection with a client.

TCPClient

It does not need to bind its address to the socket.
It just calls connect() method with server address.

UDPServer

It binds its port and awaits requests via recvfrom().
In recvfrom() it explicitly binds to the incoming connection.

UDPClient

It calls sendto() with the address of a server.