Chat This example implements a chat server and client.

The programs use a custom prot ocol with a fixed length message header and variable length message body.

#ifndef CHAT_MESSAGE_HPP #define CHAT_MESSAGE_HPP #include <cstdio> #include <cstdlib> #include <cstring> class chat_message { public: enum { header_length = 4 }; enum { max_body_length = 512 }; chat_message() : body_length_(0) { } const char* data() const { return data_; } char* data() { return data_; } size_t length() const { return header_length + body_length_; } const char* body() const { return data_ + header_length; } char* body() { return data_ + header_length; } size_t body_length() const { return body_length_; } void body_length(size_t length) { body_length_ = length; if (body_length_ > max_body_length)

body_length_ = max_body_length; } bool decode_header() { using namespace std; // For strncat and atoi. char header[header_length + 1] = ""; strncat(header, data_, header_length); body_length_ = atoi(header); if (body_length_ > max_body_length) { body_length_ = 0; return false; } return true; } void encode_header() { using namespace std; // For sprintf and memcpy. char header[header_length + 1] = ""; sprintf(header, "%4d", body_length_); memcpy(data_, header, header_length); } private: char data_[header_length + max_body_length]; size_t body_length_; }; #endif // CHAT_MESSAGE_HPP