Objective-C

Receive Text from a Socket into a StringBuilder

Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveSb, which receives text, decodes it using StringCharset, and appends it to a StringBuilder.

Background. Text send and receive operations encode and decode bytes using the StringCharset property. For plain ASCII or UTF-8 protocols, setting StringCharset to utf-8 is a safe default.

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#import <CkoSocket.h>
#import <NSString.h>
#import <CkoStringBuilder.h>

BOOL success = NO;

CkoSocket *socket = [[CkoSocket alloc] init];

//  Connect to the server using TLS.  The 3rd argument enables the TLS handshake after the TCP
//  connection succeeds; the 4th is the maximum time to wait, in milliseconds.
BOOL bTls = YES;
int maxWaitMs = 5000;
success = [socket Connect: @"example.com" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 5000] ssl: bTls maxWaitMs: [NSNumber numberWithInt: maxWaitMs]];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
socket.StringCharset = @"utf-8";
//  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
//  CRLF.
NSString *command = @"STATUS\r\n";
success = [socket SendString: command];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Receive text and append it to a StringBuilder, decoding using StringCharset.
CkoStringBuilder *sb = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
success = [socket ReceiveSb: sb];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

NSString *responseText = [sb GetAsString];
if (sb.LastMethodSuccess == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",sb.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

NSLog(@"%@",responseText);