[ENet-discuss] What about a custom packet pattern?

[Sergio Martin]

Hi,

> What about all the other people that use enet?

These change are only intended for my project.
It's not like I'm going to commit to the enet CVS :D

> Why don't you implement code to create packets and send them using enet.

I have already a message class for that. But I need to send UDP packets
in this very specific form over a custom network. Just to give you a
clue, I'm not developing for the PC ;-)


El 14/04/2011 13:27, Jay Sprenkle escribió:
> Sergio,
> The pattern you've chosen sounds fine.
> I don't think changing enet to meet your requirements is a good idea though.
> What about all the other people that use enet?
> Why don't you implement code to create packets and send them using enet.
> That's how it's intended to be used.
> It works just fine for me.
>
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> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Sergio Martin
> <smartin at freedomfactorystudios.com
> <mailto:smartin at freedomfactorystudios.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     In order to meet our client custom network requirement, I need to
>     send each UDP packet data as following:
>
>     [ size_of_game_data ] [ game_data ] [ voice_data ]
>
>
>     How difficult would be to modify ENet behaviour to meet that pattern?
>     I'm not sure how to deal with ENet's packet fragmentation.
>
>     I'm thinking of adding to ENetPacket struct two new variables:
>     enet_uint8 * voiceData;             /**< allocated voice data for
>     packet */
>     size_t           voiceDataLength;  /**< length of voice data */
>
>     Change: enet_packet_create (const void * data, size_t dataLength,
>     enet_uint32 flags)
>     To this: enet_packet_create(const void * data, size_t dataLength,
>     const void * voiceData, size_t voiceDataLength, enet_uint32 flags)
>
>     And then modify the rest of ENet to support it.
>
>
>     Is this the correct approach?
>
>
>     Best Regards,
>     Sergio Martin.
>
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