假设您想自己进行序列化,而不是使用 Google Protocol Buffers 或其他库来为您处理,我建议您编写一对这样的函数:
// Serializes (msg) into a flat array of bytes, and returns the number of bytes written
// Note that (outBuf) must be big enough to hold any Message you might have, or there will
// be a buffer overrun! Modifying this function to check for that problem and
// error out instead is left as an exercise for the reader.
int SerializeMessage(const struct Message & msg, char * outBuf)
{
char * outPtr = outBuf;
int32_t sendID = htonl(msg.id); // htonl will make sure it gets sent in big-endian form
memcpy(outPtr, &sendID, sizeof(sendID));
outPtr += sizeof(sendID);
int32_t sendLen = htonl(msg.message_length);
memcpy(outPtr, &sendLen, sizeof(sendLen));
outPtr += sizeof(sendLen);
memcpy(outPtr, msg.message_str, msg.message_length); // I'm assuming message_length=strlen(message_str)+1 here
outPtr += msg.message_length;
return (outPtr-outBuf);
}
// Deserializes a flat array of bytes back into a Message object. Returns 0 on success, or -1 on failure.
int DeserializeMessage(const char * inBuf, int numBytes, struct Message & msg)
{
const char * inPtr = inBuf;
if (numBytes < sizeof(int32_t)) return -1; // buffer was too short!
int32_t recvID = ntohl(*((int32_t *)inPtr));
inPtr += sizeof(int32_t);
numBytes -= sizeof(int32_t);
msg.id = recvID;
if (numBytes < sizeof(int32_t)) return -1; // buffer was too short!
int32_t recvLen = ntohl(*((int32_t *)inPtr));
inPtr += sizeof(int32_t);
numBytes -= sizeof(int32_t);
msg.message_length = recvLen; if (msg.message_length > 1024) return -1; /* Sanity check, just in case something got munged we don't want to allocate a giant array */
msg.message_str = new char[msg.message_length];
memcpy(msg.message_str, inPtr, numBytes);
return 0;
}
使用这些函数,您现在可以将 Message 转换为简单的 char-array 并随意转换回来。所以现在你要做的就是通过 TCP 连接发送 char 数组,在远端接收它,然后将数组反序列化回那里的 Message 结构。
其中一个问题是您的 char 数组将是可变长度的(由于存在可能不同长度的字符串),因此您的接收者需要一些简单的方法来知道在调用 DeserializeMessage 之前要接收多少字节() 在数组上。
一个简单的处理方法是总是先发送一个 4 字节整数,然后再发送 char 数组。 4 字节整数应该始终是即将到来的数组的大小,以字节为单位。 (确保在发送之前先通过 htonl() 将整数转换为大端序,然后在使用前通过 htonl() 将其转换回接收器上的 native-endian)。