[MacRuby-devel] Trying to add Bonjour to a ControlTower app

[Mark Rada]

Hi Laurent,

In my case I can ignore a lot of what the low level stuff since Control Tower handles it for me and I only to be able to advertise using Bonjour.

Thanks for the update,
	Mark


On 2010-12-14, at 6:13 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> I'm afraid the low level BSD socket structures are not yet covered by BridgeSupport.
> 
> We could eventually add them to the libSystem BridgeSupport file, however I wonder if there isn't an easier way to use Bonjour from MacRuby.
> 
> Laurent
> 
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 8:09 PM, Mark Rada wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> For a distributed web service I am trying to add Bonjour support, but I ran into trouble with the Bridge Support when trying out one of the examples from the NSNetServices Programming Guide[1].
>> 
>> When publishing, I am supposed to get some socket info from a BSD sockaddr structure[2], but I can't seem to cast the Pointer object to something useful. For example, when I try asking the Pointer for its type I get this:
>> 
>> 	NSSocketPort.alloc.init.address.bytes.type # => "C"
>> 
>> But it should be a struct with a short int and a char array. If I try to case the Pointer I get an error:
>> 
>> 	NSSocketPort.alloc.init.address.bytes.cast!( '{sockaddr=s[c]}' )
>> 
>> 	TypeError: unrecognized runtime type `{sockaddr=s[c]}' 
>> 
>> I cannot find a Boxed class descendant for sockaddr or any of the structs it is unionized with, so I am wondering if anybody else has tried the Bonjour examples with MacRuby and had success? Are these low-level BSD libraries supported by the new Bridge Support?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 	Mark
>> 
>> Links:
>> 1. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Networking/Conceptual/NSNetServiceProgGuide/Articles/PublishingServices.html
>> 2. http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_305.html
>> 
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