ecomm

Full Duplex IPC Communication olibrary based on Named pipes or System V Message Queue.

This library can work in one direction : one process will read and the others will write or in both : full duplex : both can read and write.

The Library will manipulates strnig and object that can be serialized into string and deserialized from string.

It work by defaults using Named pipes FIFO, and also can use V system Messages Queue.

ecomm concept

On every half duplex communication required , it create a pipe(or a Queue ) and manage sending receiving by proposnig the correct Api . That's managed by class EasinComm. So the class EasinCommFull that support Full Duplex haas two instace of EasinComm. The library doesnt not manage thead , it's no the caller responsaability.

ecomm Object

We call that Object that be sent or reveic in communication between process . It can be any class that fit soe condition :

• have a cstructor from string , that ca ndeserialize object from that params
• implement serialize from src/EasinCommObj.h

class EasinCommObj {
public:
    virtual std::string Serialize() = 0 ;
    
};

How ecomm Object is Sent/Received

The serialization operation must be transorm objet params in a string where :

• fields will be separated by ;
• once done , the result must be end with END;

Theses two constants, are defined in src/EasinComm.h, and can be changed if needed :

#define END_STRING          "END;"
#define END_STRING_LENGTH   4
#define SEP_STRING          ";"

The deserialization operation shall do the oposite.

An example to follw is here tests/EasinCommand.f

class EasinCommand: public EasinCommObj {
public:
...
    EasinCommand(std::string command)
    {
        std::istringstream f(command);
        std::string s;  
        int i=0;
        while (getline(f, s, ';')) {
            if(i == 0)
                m_id = s;
            else if(i==1)
                m_command = s ;
            else
                m_params.push_back(s);
            i++;
        }
    };

    std::string Serialize(){
        std::string  params="";
        for (int i=0;i<m_params.size();i++)
            params+= m_params[i] + SEP_STRING;
        return std::string(m_id + SEP_STRING + m_command + SEP_STRING + params + END_STRING);
    };

private:
    std::string m_id;
    std::string m_command;
    std::vector<std::string> m_params;
};

ecomm tests

Tests are built by default ( we can disable that using cmake option -DBUILD_TESTS=off ) We generate two binary for half and full duplex :

• for half duplex : testecomm :
  • run it with params RECEIVER or SENDER
  • This tests will send messages from Sender To Receiver
  • Default message amount on source code 1000000 , that will be sent on about 11m6,424s min using Fifo.
• for Full Duplex : testfullecomm : run it with params SIDE1 or SIDE2
  • run it with params SIDE1 or SIDE2
  • This tests will send messages from SIDE To SIDE in both direction
  • Default message amount on source code 1000000 , meaning total message exchanged are the double, that will be sent on about 10m55,380s min using Fifo.