Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Socket.ReadAll

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Socket.ReadAll

Reads bytes from socket and returns them as text.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
Socket	4.3	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "Socket.ReadAll"; SocketID { ; Encoding } ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags

SocketID The socket ID received by Socket.Connect function. $sock

Encoding The text encoding for result.
Default is native. This function can also handle UTF-16 as well as UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE for little/big endian byte order.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ. UTF8 Optional

Parameter	Description	Example	Flags
SocketID	The socket ID received by Socket.Connect function.	$sock
Encoding	The text encoding for result. Default is native. This function can also handle UTF-16 as well as UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE for little/big endian byte order. Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.	UTF8	Optional

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Reads bytes from socket and returns them as text.
This function will look how much is in read buffer and query all bytes inside.
May not work for SSL sockets.

The buffer size of the socket is managed by the OS and can be several megabytes big if needed. To look into buffer without removing text, please use Socket.PeekAll function instead.

Examples

Read all bytes and decode them from Windows text encoding into FileMaker:

$value = MBS( "Socket.ReadAll"; $sock; "windows" )

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Created 11st September 2014, last changed 15th February 2019

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