Socket.send

Tries to send size bytes from buffer on the socket. This is mainly used by connection-oriented sockets; it is identical to Socket.sendTo with address set to NULL.

If the socket is in blocking mode the call will block until there is space for the data in the socket queue. If there is no space available and the socket is in non-blocking mode a G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK error will be returned. To be notified when space is available, wait for the G_IO_OUT condition. Note though that you may still receive G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK from Socket.send even if you were previously notified of a G_IO_OUT condition. (On Windows in particular, this is very common due to the way the underlying APIs work.)

On error -1 is returned and error is set accordingly.

class Socket
ptrdiff_t
send

Parameters

buffer string

the buffer containing the data to send.

cancellable Cancellable

a GCancellable or NULL

Return Value

Type: ptrdiff_t

Number of bytes written (which may be less than size), or -1 on error

Throws

GException on failure.

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Since

2.22