so i'm trying to create a system that uses a TcpClient to send and recieve data from a server. I have a thread listening for data coming in.
What I want is to be able to make a method which can:
Write to the stream > Wait for response > Process response
But at the same time, other irrelevant data may also come in during this time, so I can't just do:
writer.WriteLine("");
string response = reader.ReadLine();
I was looking at 'callbacks' in this question > Callbacks in C# and it seems like this is the way I need to go, but I'm not entirely sure how I can proceed with this.
Any help with this would be great, thanks!
Edit for Jim Mischel:
This is the sort of thing I want to achieve:
public bool Login(string username, string password) {
writer.Write("{ \"username\" : \"" + username + "\", \"password\" : \"" + password + "\" }";
//Somehow get the response which is being ran on another thread (See below)
//Process the JSON into a object and check is successful or not
if (msg.result == "Ok") return true;
else return false;
}
private void ReadThread()
{
while (running)
{
if (ns.DataAvailable)
{
string msg = reader.ReadLine();
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(msg)) continue;
Process(msg); //Process the message aka get it back to the Login method
}
}
}
Edit 2: Basically I want to be able to call a login method which will write to a TcpClient and wait to receive a reply from the same stream and then return a boolean value.
But a basic method like so wouldn't cut it:
public bool Login(string username, string password) {
writer.Write("{ \"username\" : \"" + username + "\", \"password\" : \"" + password + "\" }";
string response = reader.ReadLine();
if (response == "success") return true;
else return false;
}
This wouldn't work because other data gets automatically pushed through the stream to me, so when waiting on the ReadLine(), I could be getting anything else instead of the response that I'm looking for.
So I'm looking for a solution which can solve this issue, currently I have a thread running which is purely for reading from the stream and then processing the message, I need to get the message from that thread over to this above method.
One way I thought about doing this is when a message gets read, for it to be put in a global List which then the Login method can be put in a loop which checks the List until the message is found within the list. But if I'm right in thinking, this is a terrible concept. So I'm looking for an alternative.
