indexing

	description:
		"A client for a network socket.";

	status: "See notice at end of class";
	date: "$Date$";
	revision: "$Revision$"

class NETWORK_CLIENT inherit

	CLIENT
		redefine
			in_out, send
		end

feature -- Access

	in_out: NETWORK_STREAM_SOCKET;
			-- Receive and send sockets.

	make (a_peer_port: INTEGER; a_peer_name: STRING) is
			-- Make client with port `a_peer_port' and host `a_peer_name'.
		require
			a_valid_port: a_peer_port > 0;
			a_valid_name: a_peer_name /= Void and then not a_peer_name.is_empty
		do
			create in_out.make_client_by_port (a_peer_port, a_peer_name);
			in_out.connect
		end;

	cleanup is
			-- Shut down client.
		do
			in_out.close
		end;

	send (msg : ANY) is
			-- Send `msg' to server.
		do
			in_out.independent_store (msg)
		end

end -- class NETWORK_CLIENT

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