README.adoc

TCP

TCP is a streaming protocol and some mechanism is needed to frame messages on the wire. A number of decoders are available, the default being 'CRLF' which is compatible with Telnet.

Messages produced by the TCP source application have a byte[] payload.

Options

See Spring Functions Catalog for configuration options.

Available Decoders

Text Data

CRLF (default)

text terminated by carriage return (0x0d) followed by line feed (0x0a)

LF

text terminated by line feed (0x0a)

NULL

text terminated by a null byte (0x00)

STXETX

text preceded by an STX (0x02) and terminated by an ETX (0x03)

Text and Binary Data

RAW

no structure - the client indicates a complete message by closing the socket

L1

data preceded by a one byte (unsigned) length field (supports up to 255 bytes)

L2

data preceded by a two byte (unsigned) length field (up to 2¹⁶-1 bytes)

L4

data preceded by a four byte (signed) length field (up to 2³¹-1 bytes)