[PD] bi-directional OSC over TCP from liblo

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 11/09/2012 02:51 PM, Jamie Bullock wrote:
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> So, it seems like [packOSCstream] and [unpackOSCstream] are (un)packing message in a format that can't be used with external clients/servers. Is that correct?


from your experience with liblo, you seem to conclude that:
a) all "external clients/servers" are build on top of liblo.
b) liblo handles OSC over TCP/IP correctly
c) [(un)packOSCstream] handles it wrongly.


anyhow:
originally OSC did not define how to transmit OSC-packets over a 
stream-based protocol like TCP/IP (that has no notion of ending packets).
implementations that wanted to transmit OSC over stream-based protocols 
had to find solutions for themselves.

a few years ago, the OSC specs have been extended, to explicitely 
mention "SLIP" encoding as the means to packetize streams of OSC-data.

[packOSCstream] implements this standard by use of [slipenc].


i don't know, how liblo packetizes the data for tcp/ip, but if it is no 
t SLIP, then this is a bug in liblo (if you want a "standard" behaviour).
if it *uses* SLIP, then the bug would be in [unpackOSCstream].
check the obvious, e.g. whether [slipenc]/[slipdec] are correctly 
instantiated in the *packOSCstream abstractions.

in order to find the real cause of your problem, it would be great if 
you could send the output of [tcpserver] when sending a single simple 
OSC-message (like "/foo") from liblo.


gmdsart
IOhannes