/* ============================================================================== This file is part of the JUCE library. Copyright (c) 2015 - ROLI Ltd. Permission is granted to use this software under the terms of either: a) the GPL v2 (or any later version) b) the Affero GPL v3 Details of these licenses can be found at: www.gnu.org/licenses JUCE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To release a closed-source product which uses JUCE, commercial licenses are available: visit www.juce.com for more information. ============================================================================== */ #ifndef JUCE_INTERPROCESSCONNECTION_H_INCLUDED #define JUCE_INTERPROCESSCONNECTION_H_INCLUDED class InterprocessConnectionServer; class MemoryBlock; //============================================================================== /** Manages a simple two-way messaging connection to another process, using either a socket or a named pipe as the transport medium. To connect to a waiting socket or an open pipe, use the connectToSocket() or connectToPipe() methods. If this succeeds, messages can be sent to the other end, and incoming messages will result in a callback via the messageReceived() method. To open a pipe and wait for another client to connect to it, use the createPipe() method. To act as a socket server and create connections for one or more client, see the InterprocessConnectionServer class. @see InterprocessConnectionServer, Socket, NamedPipe */ class JUCE_API InterprocessConnection { public: //============================================================================== /** Creates a connection. Connections are created manually, connecting them with the connectToSocket() or connectToPipe() methods, or they are created automatically by a InterprocessConnectionServer when a client wants to connect. @param callbacksOnMessageThread if true, callbacks to the connectionMade(), connectionLost() and messageReceived() methods will always be made using the message thread; if false, these will be called immediately on the connection's own thread. @param magicMessageHeaderNumber a magic number to use in the header to check the validity of the data blocks being sent and received. This can be any number, but the sender and receiver must obviously use matching values or they won't recognise each other. */ InterprocessConnection (bool callbacksOnMessageThread = true, uint32 magicMessageHeaderNumber = 0xf2b49e2c); /** Destructor. */ virtual ~InterprocessConnection(); //============================================================================== /** Tries to connect this object to a socket. For this to work, the machine on the other end needs to have a InterprocessConnectionServer object waiting to receive client connections on this port number. @param hostName the host computer, either a network address or name @param portNumber the socket port number to try to connect to @param timeOutMillisecs how long to keep trying before giving up @returns true if the connection is established successfully @see Socket */ bool connectToSocket (const String& hostName, int portNumber, int timeOutMillisecs); /** Tries to connect the object to an existing named pipe. For this to work, another process on the same computer must already have opened an InterprocessConnection object and used createPipe() to create a pipe for this to connect to. @param pipeName the name to use for the pipe - this should be unique to your app @param pipeReceiveMessageTimeoutMs a timeout length to be used when reading or writing to the pipe, or -1 for an infinite timeout. @returns true if it connects successfully. @see createPipe, NamedPipe */ bool connectToPipe (const String& pipeName, int pipeReceiveMessageTimeoutMs); /** Tries to create a new pipe for other processes to connect to. This creates a pipe with the given name, so that other processes can use connectToPipe() to connect to the other end. @param pipeName the name to use for the pipe - this should be unique to your app @param pipeReceiveMessageTimeoutMs a timeout length to be used when reading or writing to the pipe, or -1 for an infinite timeout @param mustNotExist if set to true, the method will fail if the pipe already exists @returns true if the pipe was created, or false if it fails (e.g. if another process is already using using the pipe) */ bool createPipe (const String& pipeName, int pipeReceiveMessageTimeoutMs, bool mustNotExist = false); /** Disconnects and closes any currently-open sockets or pipes. */ void disconnect(); /** True if a socket or pipe is currently active. */ bool isConnected() const; /** Returns the socket that this connection is using (or nullptr if it uses a pipe). */ StreamingSocket* getSocket() const noexcept { return socket; } /** Returns the pipe that this connection is using (or nullptr if it uses a socket). */ NamedPipe* getPipe() const noexcept { return pipe; } /** Returns the name of the machine at the other end of this connection. This may return an empty string if the name is unknown. */ String getConnectedHostName() const; //============================================================================== /** Tries to send a message to the other end of this connection. This will fail if it's not connected, or if there's some kind of write error. If it succeeds, the connection object at the other end will receive the message by a callback to its messageReceived() method. @see messageReceived */ bool sendMessage (const MemoryBlock& message); //============================================================================== /** Called when the connection is first connected. If the connection was created with the callbacksOnMessageThread flag set, then this will be called on the message thread; otherwise it will be called on a server thread. */ virtual void connectionMade() = 0; /** Called when the connection is broken. If the connection was created with the callbacksOnMessageThread flag set, then this will be called on the message thread; otherwise it will be called on a server thread. */ virtual void connectionLost() = 0; /** Called when a message arrives. When the object at the other end of this connection sends us a message with sendMessage(), this callback is used to deliver it to us. If the connection was created with the callbacksOnMessageThread flag set, then this will be called on the message thread; otherwise it will be called on a server thread. @see sendMessage */ virtual void messageReceived (const MemoryBlock& message) = 0; private: //============================================================================== WeakReference::Master masterReference; friend class WeakReference; CriticalSection pipeAndSocketLock; ScopedPointer socket; ScopedPointer pipe; bool callbackConnectionState; const bool useMessageThread; const uint32 magicMessageHeader; int pipeReceiveMessageTimeout; friend class InterprocessConnectionServer; void initialiseWithSocket (StreamingSocket*); void initialiseWithPipe (NamedPipe*); void deletePipeAndSocket(); void connectionMadeInt(); void connectionLostInt(); void deliverDataInt (const MemoryBlock&); bool readNextMessageInt(); struct ConnectionThread; friend struct ConnectionThread; friend struct ContainerDeletePolicy; ScopedPointer thread; void runThread(); int writeData (void*, int); JUCE_DECLARE_NON_COPYABLE_WITH_LEAK_DETECTOR (InterprocessConnection) }; #endif // JUCE_INTERPROCESSCONNECTION_H_INCLUDED