SOCKET READ()
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Contents
Purpose
Function to read data from an open socket connection
Syntax
SOCKET_READ(<expN>)
See Also
ACLASS(), ADDPROPERTY(), AMEMBERS(), COMPOBJ(), CREATEOBJECT(), DEFINE CLASS, DISPLAY CLASSES, DODEFAULT(), FOREACH, JSON_DECODE_FILE(), JSON_ENCODE(), LIST CLASSES, LOADOBJECT(), NEWOBJECT(), OBJECT(), PRINT_JSON(), PRINT_HTML(), PRINT_R(), PRINT_XML(), REMOVEPROPERTY(), REQUIRE_ONCE(), SAVEOBJECT(), SELECT, SOCKET_CLOSE(), SOCKET_LASTERROR(), SOCKET_OPEN(), SOCKET_PEEK(), SOCKET_SERVER(), SOCKET_WRITE(), WITH, XML_DECODE_FILE()
Description
The SOCKET_READ() function is used to read data from an open socket connection. The <expN> is the socket number returned from SOCKET_OPEN() or SOCKET_SERVER().
Example
// read the JSON encoded object from the socket data = socket_read(skt) // assume we are connected to node.js (as an example) // and decode the JSON string myobj = json_decode(data) // now myobj is a VFP object with all the properties // (and subobjects/arrays etc)