brine_net

brine_net

This is a generic library providing an easy(ish) way for Bevy apps to implement a known protocol over TCP.

The design of this library centers heavily on the async_codec crate. Any user protocol that implements async_code::Encode and async_codec::Decode can be used with the NetworkPlugin provided by this crate.

Examples and Documentation

The rustdocs in lib.rs and plugin.rs provide a good description of how the crate is used. The examples directory contains a couple simple examples.

For a much more fully-fledged example, see brine_proto_backend.

Limitations

I haven't spent much more time on this library so far beyond that which was required to get me up and running with a working Minecraft protocol backend. So there are still some major limitations:

• Only one connection can be active at a time for a given NetworkPlugin<Codec>.
• Only serverbound connections can be established; there is no way to set up a listening socket and implement the server side of things.

Also, async_codec does not appear to be without its problems. I've already had to work around one or two.