TCP Server

[annaborn]

Hello Sylvain @doudou,

in this library I found an implementation for TCP server in src/TCPDriver. However, it was not mentioned in Readme and was not integrated in the correspondend orogen. Is there some particalur reason for it?

I am currently using the TCPDriver, and seems to work well. I would like to overwork the TCPDriver to add more functionality and fixes. e.g. a possibility to check from outside if a client is connected or disconnected. Also, it needs to be integrated into iodrivers_base orogen component to be used fully. Some changes I have already implemented.

My question is, would it be of particular interest to have functional TCP Server in this lib and its orogen?
Are there some restirctions that I should take into account?

Thank you!

[doudou]

I think it would make sense to have a tcp server integrated in iodrivers_base::Driver as a stream, the same way there is a UDP "server", if that's what you have in mind.

A separate TCP server class and component ? I don't see it, no. If only because I'm guessing there is already much better and feature-complete implementations for TCP in C++ out there.

[annaborn]

@doudou Hello Sylvain,

I added TCP server as stream into the library. Also I am using this implemantion already in our project.

Could you please take a look? #43

At the moment the tcp server can handle only one connection. If a new client will request a conntection to the server, the server will switch to it. I took this concept from TCPDriver.cpp.