RxSockets  

Minimal Reactive / Async Streams Socket Implementation

• .NET 8.0 library
• connect: asynchronous
• send: synchronous
• receive: async enumerable or observable
• accept: async enumerable or observable
• simple and intuitive API
• dependencies: System.Reactive, Microsoft.Extensions.Logging

installation

PM> Install-Package RxSockets

example

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reactive.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Xunit;
using RxSockets;

server

interface IRxSocketServer : IAsyncDisposable
{
    EndPoint LocalEndPoint { get; }
    IAsyncEnumerable<IRxSocketClient> AcceptAllAsync { get; }
}

// Create a server using an available port on the local machine.
IRxSocketServer server = RxSocketServer.Create();

// Prepare to start accepting connections from clients.
server
    .AcceptAllAsync
    .ToObservableFromAsyncEnumerable()
    .Subscribe(onNext: acceptClient =>
    {
        // After the server accepts a client connection,
        // start receiving messages from the client and ...
        acceptClient
            .ReceiveAllAsync
            .ToObservableFromAsyncEnumerable()
            .ToStrings()
            .Subscribe(onNext: message =>
            {
                // Echo each message received back to the client.
                acceptClient.Send(message.ToByteArray());
            });
    });

client

interface IRxSocketClient : IAsyncDisposable
{
    EndPoint RemoteEndPoint { get; }
    bool Connected { get; }
    int Send(ReadOnlySpan<byte> buffer);
    IAsyncEnumerable<byte> ReceiveAllAsync { get; }
}

// Create a client connected to EndPoint of the server.
IRxSocketClient client = await server.LocalEndPoint.CreateRxSocketClientAsync();

// Send the message "Hello!" to the server,
// which the server will then echo back to the client.
client.Send("Hello!".ToByteArray());

// Receive the message from the server.
string message = await client.ReceiveAllAsync.ToStrings().FirstAsync();
Assert.Equal("Hello!", message);

await client.DisposeAsync();
await server.DisposeAsync();

notes

IObservable<T> ToObservableFromAsyncEnumerable<T>(this IAsyncEnumerable<T> source)

The extension method ToObservableFromAsyncEnumerable() may be used to create observables from the async enumerables IRxSocketClient.ReceiveAllAsync and IRxSocketServer.AcceptAllAsync.

Observable.Publish()[.RefCount() | .AutoConnect()] may be used to support multiple simultaneous observers.

To communicate using strings (see example above), the following extension methods are provided:

byte[] ToByteArray(this string source);
byte[] ToByteArray(this IEnumerable<string> source)

IEnumerable<string>      ToStrings(this IEnumerable<byte> source)
IAsyncEnumerable<string> ToStrings(this IAsyncEnumerable<byte> source)
IObservable<string>      ToStrings(this IObservable<byte> source)

To communicate using byte arrays with a 4 byte BigEndian integer length prefix, the following extension methods are provided:

byte[] ToByteArrayWithLengthPrefix(this byte[] source)

IEnumerable<byte[]>      ToArraysFromBytesWithLengthPrefix(this IEnumerable<byte> source)
IAsyncEnumerable<byte[]> ToArraysFromBytesWithLengthPrefix(this IAsyncEnumerable<byte> source)
IObservable<byte[]>      ToArraysFromBytesWithLengthPrefix(this IObservable<byte> source)