I'm taking a dive into the networking side of Go, and I'd thought I'd start with a TCP Client and Server.
I am able to get the client to connect to the server and send a simple message ("Hello") successfully. However, I can not get the server to send back a response (or the get the client to read the response).
Here is the code.
Server
Address := "localhost:9999"
Addr, err := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp", Address)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
listener, err := net.ListenTCP("tcp", Addr)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer listener.Close()
//server loop
for {
conn, err := listener.Accept()
if err != nil {
continue
}
go handle(conn)
}
func handle(c net.Conn) {
totalBytes, message := connRead(c)
fmt.Println(c.RemoteAddr())
fmt.Println(string(message[:totalBytes]))
c.Write([]byte("Hi"))
fmt.Println("Replied")
c.Close()
}
func connRead(c net.Conn) (int, []byte) {
buffer := make([]byte, 4096)
totalBytes := 0
for {
n, err := c.Read(buffer)
totalBytes += n
if err != nil {
if err != io.EOF {
log.Printf("Read error: %s", err)
}
break
}
}
return totalBytes, buffer
}
Client
tcpAddr, err := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp", "localhost:9999")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
conn, err := net.DialTCP("tcp", nil, tcpAddr)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer conn.Close()
_, err = conn.Write([]byte("Hello"))
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
tBytes, resp := connRead(conn)
fmt.Println(tBytes)
fmt.Println(string(resp[:tBytes]))
func connRead(c net.Conn) (int, []byte) {
buffer := make([]byte, 4096)
totalBytes := 0
for {
fmt.Println("Stuck?")
n, err := c.Read(buffer)
fmt.Println("Stuck.")
totalBytes += n
fmt.Println(totalBytes)
if err != nil {
if err != io.EOF {
log.Printf("Read error: %s", err)
}
break
}
}
return totalBytes, buffer
}
From what I can tell it's not a problem with the server. When I run the client, everything stops right after fmt.Println("Stuck?"). This leads me to belive that it's messing up in the n, err := c.Read(buffer) statement somehow. The server doesn't even print out the messeage length (5) and message ("Hello") untill after I Ctrl-C the client. If I comment out the read and printings in the client, then things run smoothly.
I've tried googling for answers, but nothing has come up.
What am I doing wrong? Am I using conn.Read() wrong in the client?
EDIT:
I actually do have access to Linux, so here are the SIGQUIT dumps for the pertinent functions.
Server
Client
for {
n, err := c.Read(buffer)
totalBytes += n
if err != nil {
if err != io.EOF {
log.Printf("Read error: %s", err)
}
break
}
}
It is because you are reading from connection till EOF error occurs
conn.Write([]byte("Hello"))
The above statement won't reach EOF at all until you actually closes the connection
On pressing ctrl+c client side the connection will be closed, So EOF occurs at server side, That is the reason why it is exiting server side for loop and printing these
127.0.0.1:****
Hello
Replied
If you want to make this work you should not read the connection till EOF
There are many other alternatives for this