Socket.receiveWithBlocking

This behaves exactly the same as g_socket_receive(), except that the choice of blocking or non-blocking behavior is determined by the blocking argument rather than by socket's properties. Since 2.26

class Socket
receiveWithBlocking

Parameters

buffer string

a buffer to read data into (which should be at least size bytes long). [array length=size][element-type guint8]

size gsize

the number of bytes you want to read from the socket

blocking int

whether to do blocking or non-blocking I/O

cancellable Cancellable

a GCancellable or NULL. [allow-none]

Return Value

Type: gssize

Number of bytes read, or 0 if the connection was closed by the peer, or -1 on error

Throws

GException on failure.

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