Network.Socket.ByteString.Lazy

network-2.6.2.1: Low-level networking interface

Copyright | (c) Bryan O'Sullivan 2009
License | BSD-style
Maintainer | bos@serpentine.com
Stability | experimental
Portability | POSIX, GHC
Safe Haskell | None
Language | Haskell98

Network.Socket.ByteString.Lazy

Contents

- Send data to a socket
- Receive data from a socket

Description

This module provides access to the BSD socket interface. This module is generally more efficient than the `String` based network functions in `Socket`. For detailed documentation, consult your favorite POSIX socket reference. All functions communicate failures by converting the error number to `IOError`.

This module is made to be imported with `Socket` like so:

    import Network.Socket hiding (send, sendTo, recv, recvFrom)
    import Network.Socket.ByteString.Lazy
    import Prelude hiding (getContents)

Synopsis

- send :: Socket -> ByteString -> IO Int64
- sendAll :: Socket -> ByteString -> IO ()
- getContents :: Socket -> IO ByteString
- recv :: Socket -> Int64 -> IO ByteString

# Send data to a socket

send #

Arguments

:: Socket | Connected socket
-> ByteString | Data to send
-> IO Int64 | Number of bytes sent

sendAll #

Arguments

:: Socket | Connected socket
-> ByteString | Data to send
-> IO () |

# Receive data from a socket

getContents #

Arguments

:: Socket | Connected socket
-> IO ByteString | Data received

Receive data from the socket. The socket must be in a connected state. Data is received on demand, in chunks; each chunk will be sized to reflect the amount of data received by individual `recv` calls.

All remaining data from the socket is consumed. When there is no more data to be received, the receiving side of the socket is shut down. If there is an error and an exception is thrown, the socket is not shut down.

recv #

Arguments

:: Socket | Connected socket
-> Int64 | Maximum number of bytes to receive
-> IO ByteString | Data received

Receive data from the socket. The socket must be in a connected state. This function may return fewer bytes than specified. If the received data is longer than the specified length, it may be discarded depending on the type of socket. This function may block until a message arrives.

If there is no more data to be received, returns an empty `ByteString`.