[Nutshell-devel] Basic class information : Byte Buffer.

[Alexandre M. <ale...@gm...>]

Keeping the batch of messages related to the class of the system.

A ByteBuffer is a buffer used by the network pieces of our system, to
keep track of incoming data until it can safely extract a message out
of it. Here is its basic definition (somethings may vary as I already
have an implemented version of this class at home, with no access to
it right now).

The ByteBuffer is a circular buffer, that can hold up to size bytes,
wrapping around when needed, if possible. This is useful to hold
received data and yet-to-send data. Heavily used by our sockets.

ByteBuffer
 public:
  ByteBuffer(int size);
  virtual ~ByteBuffer();
  insert(const ByteArray& source, int size);
  fetch(ByteArray& dest, int size);
  discard(int size);
  consume(ByteArray& dest, int size); // this is simply a fetch(); discard();
  int getSize();
  int getCapacity();
 private:
  char* data;
  int size;
  int position;

And there goes another piece of our class strucutre... a lecture
brought to you by Yago Warner!

Until I find out I missed something again, I'll rest.. .and work a bit more.

Regards,
Alexandre Moreira.