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Class games.Battle.shared.comm.BattlePacket

java.lang.Object
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public class BattlePacket

extends Object

Classes derived from BattlePacket encapsulate some sort of object that needs to be transmitted between the server game engine and the client game player, in either direction.

Derived classes implement the methods toBytes() and fromBytes() to convert themselves to and from a stream of bytes. BattlePacket implements the writeTo() and readFrom() methods to provide transmission of the data to and from an Input/OutputStream

BattlePacket()

fromBytes(byte[])

Converts the given array of bytes into a particular BattlePacket.

readFrom(InputStream)

Reads data from the given input stream and builds a particular BattlePacket from that data.

toBytes()

Converts this BattlePacket to an array of bytes for transmission.

writeTo(OutputStream)

Writes this BattlePacket to the given output stream

  public BattlePacket()

  protected abstract byte[] toBytes()

Converts this BattlePacket to an array of bytes for transmission.

  protected abstract void fromBytes(byte data[])

Converts the given array of bytes into a particular BattlePacket.

Parameters:

data - the array of data to be converted

  public int readFrom(InputStream is) throws IOException

Reads data from the given input stream and builds a particular BattlePacket from that data.

Parameters:

is - the input stream from which the data is pulled

  public void writeTo(OutputStream os) throws IOException

Writes this BattlePacket to the given output stream

Parameters:

os - the output stream on which to write the data

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