I have written a UDP server and client in Go. I am not seeing any error messages when the server is running on port 1200, I also do not see any errors when client is trying to connect to port 1200 on the same machine (OS X 10.9.1)
The server is not printing "SOS...", that is the message the client is writing, in a infinite loop.
The client is able to send a message to the server though, however what the server is reading is 0 bytes.
Server Code
package main
import ( "net" "fmt" "time" )
func main() {
port := "127.0.0.1:1200"
udpAddress, err := net.ResolveUDPAddr("udp4",port)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("error resolving UDP address on ", port)
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
conn ,err := net.ListenUDP("udp",udpAddress)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("error listening on UDP port ", port)
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
defer conn.Close()
var buf []byte
for {
time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
n,address, err := conn.ReadFromUDP(buf)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("error reading data from connection")
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
if address != nil {
fmt.Println("got message from ", address, " with n = ", n)
if n > 0 {
fmt.Println("from address", address, "got message:", string(buf[0:n]), n)
}
}
}
}
client code, running on same server, with command go run udp-client.go :1200 or go run udp-client.go 127.0.0.1:1200
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net"
"os"
"time"
)
func main() {
if len(os.Args) != 2{
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Usage:%s host:port", os.Args[0])
os.Exit(1)
}
service := os.Args[1]
fmt.Println("Connecting to server at ", service)
conn, err := net.Dial("udp",service)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Could not resolve udp address or connect to it on " , service)
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
fmt.Println("Connected to server at ", service)
defer conn.Close()
fmt.Println("About to write to connection")
for {
time.Sleep(1000*time.Millisecond)
n, err := conn.Write([]byte("SOS ...
"))
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("error writing data to server", service)
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
if n > 0 {
fmt.Println("Wrote ",n, " bytes to server at ", service)
}
}
}