Method

GioSocketreceive_message

since: 2.22

Declaration

gssize
g_socket_receive_message (
  GSocket* socket,
  GSocketAddress** address,
  GInputVector* vectors,
  gint num_vectors,
  GSocketControlMessage*** messages,
  gint* num_messages,
  gint* flags,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Receive data from a socket. For receiving multiple messages, see g_socket_receive_messages(); for easier use, see g_socket_receive() and g_socket_receive_from().

If address is non-NULL then address will be set equal to the source address of the received packet. address is owned by the caller.

vector must point to an array of GInputVector structs and num_vectors must be the length of this array. These structs describe the buffers that received data will be scattered into. If num_vectors is -1, then vectors is assumed to be terminated by a GInputVector with a NULL buffer pointer.

As a special case, if num_vectors is 0 (in which case, vectors may of course be NULL), then a single byte is received and discarded. This is to facilitate the common practice of sending a single ‘\0’ byte for the purposes of transferring ancillary data.

messages, if non-NULL, will be set to point to a newly-allocated array of GSocketControlMessage instances or NULL if no such messages was received. These correspond to the control messages received from the kernel, one GSocketControlMessage per message from the kernel. This array is NULL-terminated and must be freed by the caller using g_free() after calling g_object_unref() on each element. If messages is NULL, any control messages received will be discarded.

num_messages, if non-NULL, will be set to the number of control messages received.

If both messages and num_messages are non-NULL, then num_messages gives the number of GSocketControlMessage instances in messages (ie: not including the NULL terminator).

flags is an in/out parameter. The commonly available arguments for this are available in the GSocketMsgFlags enum, but the values there are the same as the system values, and the flags are passed in as-is, so you can pass in system-specific flags too (and g_socket_receive_message() may pass system-specific flags out). Flags passed in to the parameter affect the receive operation; flags returned out of it are relevant to the specific returned message.

As with g_socket_receive(), data may be discarded if socket is G_SOCKET_TYPE_DATAGRAM or G_SOCKET_TYPE_SEQPACKET and you do not provide enough buffer space to read a complete message. You can pass G_SOCKET_MSG_PEEK in flags to peek at the current message without removing it from the receive queue, but there is no portable way to find out the length of the message other than by reading it into a sufficiently-large buffer.

If the socket is in blocking mode the call will block until there is some data to receive, the connection is closed, or there is an error. If there is no data available and the socket is in non-blocking mode, a G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK error will be returned. To be notified when data is available, wait for the G_IO_IN condition.

On error -1 is returned and error is set accordingly.

Available since: 2.22

Parameters

address

Type: GSocketAddress

A pointer to a GSocketAddress pointer, or NULL.

The argument will be set by the function.
The argument can be NULL.
The instance takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
vectors

Type: An array of GInputVector

An array of GInputVector structs.

The length of the array is specified in the num_vectors argument.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
num_vectors

Type: gint

The number of elements in vectors, or -1

messages

Type: An array of GSocketControlMessage**

A pointer which may be filled with an array of GSocketControlMessages, or NULL.

The argument will be set by the function.
The argument can be set to NULL by the method.
The argument can be NULL.
The length of the array is specified in the num_messages argument.
The instance takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
num_messages

Type: gint*

A pointer which will be filled with the number of elements in messages, or NULL.

The argument will be set by the function.
flags

Type: gint*

A pointer to an int containing GSocketMsgFlags flags, which may additionally contain other platform specific flags

The argument will be modified by the function.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

A %GCancellable or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gssize

Number of bytes read, or 0 if the connection was closed by the peer, or -1 on error.