Module Socket

module Socket: sig  end

Medium level TCP interface.

The sockets offered by this module are comparable.

Every send message is read as a whole. (They are not divided and do not concatenate).

Operations provided by this module should not be mixed with the ones provided by Tcp

type t 

Type representing a single socket

val create : Tcp.socket -> t

Returns a socket associated with the given Tcp.socket.

val send : t -> string -> unit

send socket message sends the given message

val queue : t -> string -> unit

queue socket message adds the given message to send queue of socket

val flush : t -> unit

flush socket sends whole send queue of socket

val recv : t -> string list

recv socket message returns a list of messages received. (max 1 per call)

val force_recv : t -> string

force_recv socket is a blocking version of Socket.recv that waits for a message.

val destroy : t -> unit

destroy socket closes the socket and deletes its buffer at all