On Jan 15, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Max, > > I wouldn't forget it too soon. Streams should work as advertised or raise an > error. My (compromise) proposal remains as follows: > > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/StreamsForRobustSoftware
Yes :) I know. > > Bill > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Max Leske > [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 6:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] reading *exactly* n bytes from socket > > Sorry, forget what I just wrote… > I found the bug in my code. Should have checked if the connection is still > open :-/ > > Cheers, > Max > > > On 15.01.2012, at 12:09, Max Leske wrote: > >> Hey guys >> >> I'm having a problem with Socket / SocketStream. When I know that the next >> packet of data from the server is going to be 10'000 bytes I want to ask the >> socket for exactly 10'000 bytes of data (I don't care how long it takes). >> However, the comments in the Socket class suggest that the buffer might not >> be filled entirely when the message answers. As a consequence, my code fails >> because the ByteArray sometimes has a number of zero bytes at the end which >> obviously wasn't expected. >> I also tried to use SocketStream to get around this problem but wasn't >> successful. Am I supposed to handle this case myself or did I overlook >> something? >> >> Cheers, >> Max > > >
