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Class: TCPServer

Relationships & Source Files
Super Chains via Extension / Inclusion / Inheritance
Class Chain:
Instance Chain:
Inherits: TCPSocket
Defined in: ext/socket/tcpserver.c,
ext/socket/socket.c

Overview

TCPServer represents a TCP/IP server socket.

A simple TCP server may look like:

require 'socket'

server = TCPServer.new 2000 # Server bind to port 2000
loop do
  client = server.accept    # Wait for a client to connect
  client.puts "Hello !"
  client.puts "Time is #{Time.now}"
  client.close
end

A more usable server (serving multiple clients):

require 'socket'

server = TCPServer.new 2000
loop do
  Thread.start(server.accept) do |client|
    client.puts "Hello !"
    client.puts "Time is #{Time.now}"
    client.close
  end
end

Class Attribute Summary

::BasicSocket - Inherited

.do_not_reverse_lookup

Gets the global do_not_reverse_lookup flag.

.do_not_reverse_lookup=

Sets the global do_not_reverse_lookup flag.

Class Method Summary

::TCPSocket - Inherited

.gethostbyname

Lookups host information by hostname.

.new

Opens a TCP connection to remote_host on remote_port.

::IPSocket - Inherited

.getaddress

Lookups the IP address of host.

::BasicSocket - Inherited

.for_fd

Returns a socket object which contains the file descriptor, fd.

Instance Attribute Summary

::BasicSocket - Inherited

#do_not_reverse_lookup

Gets the do_not_reverse_lookup flag of basicsocket.

#do_not_reverse_lookup=

Sets the do_not_reverse_lookup flag of basicsocket.

Instance Method Summary

::IPSocket - Inherited

#addr

Returns the local address as an array which contains address_family, port, hostname and numeric_address.

#peeraddr

Returns the remote address as an array which contains address_family, port, hostname and numeric_address.

#recvfrom

Receives a message and return the message as a string and an address which the message come from.

::BasicSocket - Inherited

#close_read

Disallows further read using shutdown system call.

#close_write

Disallows further write using shutdown system call.

#connect_address

Returns an address of the socket suitable for connect in the local machine.

#getpeereid

Returns the user and group on the peer of the UNIX socket.

#getpeername

Returns the remote address of the socket as a sockaddr string.

#getsockname

Returns the local address of the socket as a sockaddr string.

#getsockopt

Gets a socket option.

#local_address

Returns an ::Addrinfo object for local address obtained by getsockname.

#recv

Receives a message.

#recv_nonblock

Receives up to maxlen bytes from socket using recvfrom(2) after O_NONBLOCK is set for the underlying file descriptor.

#recvmsg

recvmsg receives a message using recvmsg(2) system call in blocking manner.

#recvmsg_nonblock

recvmsg receives a message using recvmsg(2) system call in non-blocking manner.

#remote_address

Returns an ::Addrinfo object for remote address obtained by getpeername.

#send

send mesg via basicsocket.

#sendmsg

sendmsg sends a message using sendmsg(2) system call in blocking manner.

#sendmsg_nonblock

sendmsg_nonblock sends a message using sendmsg(2) system call in non-blocking manner.

#setsockopt

Sets a socket option.

#shutdown

Calls shutdown(2) system call.

Constructor Details

.new([hostname,] port) ⇒ TCPServer

Creates a new server socket bound to port.

If hostname is given, the socket is bound to it.

serv = TCPServer.new("127.0.0.1", 28561)
s = serv.accept
s.puts Time.now
s.close

Internally, new calls getaddrinfo() function to obtain addresses. If getaddrinfo() returns multiple addresses, new tries to create a server socket for each address and returns first one that is successful.

Instance Method Details

#accepttcpsocket

Accepts an incoming connection. It returns a new ::TCPSocket object.

TCPServer.open("127.0.0.1", 14641) {|serv|
  s = serv.accept
  s.puts Time.now
  s.close
}

#accept_nonblocktcpsocket

Accepts an incoming connection using accept(2) after O_NONBLOCK is set for the underlying file descriptor. It returns an accepted ::TCPSocket for the incoming connection.

Example

require 'socket'
serv = TCPServer.new(2202)
begin # emulate blocking accept
  sock = serv.accept_nonblock
rescue IO::WaitReadable, Errno::EINTR
  IO.select([serv])
  retry
end
# sock is an accepted socket.

Refer to Socket#accept for the exceptions that may be thrown if the call to accept_nonblock fails.

accept_nonblock may raise any error corresponding to accept(2) failure, including Errno::EWOULDBLOCK.

If the exception is Errno::EWOULDBLOCK, Errno::AGAIN, Errno::ECONNABORTED, Errno::EPROTO, it is extended by IO::WaitReadable. So IO::WaitReadable can be used to rescue the exceptions for retrying accept_nonblock.

See

#listen(int) ⇒ 0

Alias for Socket#listen.

#sysacceptfile_descriptor

Returns a file descriptor of a accepted connection.

TCPServer.open("127.0.0.1", 28561) {|serv|
  fd = serv.sysaccept
  s = IO.for_fd(fd)
  s.puts Time.now
  s.close
}