Summary
In this chapter, we built a basic TCP client that sends and receives data to an echo server. We started by sending over basic string data and separating the messages with delimiters. Then, we increased the complexity of the data that we sent over a TCP connection by serializing structs. This enabled us to have more complex data structures. This serialization also reduced the handling needed to get the message data in the format that we needed it to be in. For instance, in the previous chapter, we were parsing strings into floats after receiving the message. With structs, nothing is stopping us from having a list of floats as a field, and after the serialization of the message, we would have that field housing a list of floats without any extra lines of code.
The serialization of structs is enough for us to handle most problems, but we explored framing so that we did not have to rely on delimiters to separate the messages that we send over TCP. With framing, we built a basic...
