package p2p import ( "bufio" "bytes" "encoding/binary" "io" "log" "net" ) /* P2p Message data structure: ---- message start ----- 1 byte - message type 0x00 - normal message (no need to forward) 0x11 - p2p message (may need to forward to other neighbors) 4 bytes - message size n in number of bytes payload (n bytes) - actual message payload ---- message end ----- */ // Read the message type and payload size, and return the actual payload. func ReadMessagePayload(conn net.Conn) ([]byte, error) { var ( payloadBuf = bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{}) r = bufio.NewReader(conn) ) //// Read 1 byte for messge type msgType, err := r.ReadByte() if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Error reading the p2p message type field") return payloadBuf.Bytes(), err } log.Printf("Received p2p message with type: %x", msgType) // TODO: check on msgType and take actions accordingly //// Read 4 bytes for message size fourBytes := make([]byte, 4) n, err := r.Read(fourBytes) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("Error reading the p2p message size field") return payloadBuf.Bytes(), err } else if n < len(fourBytes) { log.Fatalf("Failed reading the p2p message size field: only read %d bytes", n) return payloadBuf.Bytes(), err } log.Print(fourBytes) // Number of bytes for the message payload bytesToRead := binary.BigEndian.Uint32(fourBytes) log.Printf("The payload size is %d bytes.", bytesToRead) //// Read the payload in chunk of 1024 bytes tmpBuf := make([]byte, 1024) ILOOP: for { if bytesToRead < 1024 { // Read the last number of bytes less than 1024 tmpBuf = make([]byte, bytesToRead) } n, err := r.Read(tmpBuf) payloadBuf.Write(tmpBuf[:n]) switch err { case io.EOF: // TODO: should we return error here, or just ignore it? log.Printf("EOF reached while reading p2p message") break ILOOP case nil: bytesToRead -= uint32(n) // TODO: think about avoid the casting in every loop if bytesToRead <= 0 { break ILOOP } default: log.Printf("Error reading p2p message") return []byte{}, err } } return payloadBuf.Bytes(), nil }