Ruby

Send a 32-bit Integer over a Socket

Demonstrates Socket.SendInt32, which sends a value as a four-byte signed integer in the selected byte order.

Background. Fixed-size integers and length prefixes are common building blocks for application-defined binary protocols. Byte order is selectable, with big-endian being network byte order.

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require 'chilkat'

success = false

socket = Chilkat::CkSocket.new()

#  Connect to the server using TLS.
bTls = true
maxWaitMs = 5000
success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs)
if (success == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Send the value as a four-byte signed integer.  Use true for network byte order (big-endian) or
#  false for little-endian.
bBigEndian = true
success = socket.SendInt32(1000000,bBigEndian)
if (success == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "32-bit integer sent." + "\n";