note description: "A client for a network socket." legal: "See notice at end of class." status: "See notice at end of class." date: "$Date$" revision: "$Revision$" class NETWORK_CLIENT inherit CLIENT redefine in_out, send end create make feature -- Access in_out: NETWORK_STREAM_SOCKET; -- Receive and send sockets. make (a_peer_port: INTEGER; a_peer_name: STRING_8) -- 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 -- Shut down client. do if not in_out.is_closed then in_out.close end end; send (msg : ANY) -- Send `msg' to server. do in_out.independent_store (msg) end note copyright: "Copyright (c) 1984-2020, Eiffel Software and others" license: "Eiffel Forum License v2 (see http://www.eiffel.com/licensing/forum.txt)" source: "[ Eiffel Software 5949 Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA 93117 USA Telephone 805-685-1006, Fax 805-685-6869 Website http://www.eiffel.com Customer support http://support.eiffel.com ]" end