/// <summary>
/// Builds a header for a given transmission buffer, then sends the header and body across the network.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="buffer">Pre-encoded message body to transmit.</param>
/// <exception cref="ArgumentException">When an invalid message is passed or was parsed incorrectly.</exception>
/// <exception cref="IOException">When an error occurs while accessing or writing to the underlying NetworkStream.</exception>
private void writeBytesToStream(byte[] buffer)
{
if (buffer == null || buffer.Length == 0)
{
throw new ArgumentException("Raw TCP message cannot be empty.");
}
byte[] header = ApplicationLayer.GenerateMessageHeader(buffer.Length);
lock (stream)
{
try
{
stream.Write(header, 0, header.Length);
stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
}
catch (ObjectDisposedException e)
{
throw new IOException("The underlying NetworkStream object was unexpectedly closed.", e);
// TODO: Attempt to reconnect and try to send again.
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new IOException("An error occurred while writing to the NetworkStream.", e);
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Reads a byte-stream from the network. Handles header parsing to ensure entire message is received
/// before returning byte[] array of message body.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>Byte[] array representing message body.</returns>
/// <exception cref="IOException">When an error occurs while reading the header or body of an incoming TCP network message.</exception>
private MemoryStream readMessageFromStream()
{
lock (stream)
{
waitForData();
int msgLength = ApplicationLayer.GetMessageLengthFromHeader(stream);
byte[] msgBuffer = ApplicationLayer.GetMessageBody(stream, msgLength);
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(msgBuffer);
return(ms);
}
}