Network format

[Enlil]

Hello, I am writing a C# application that communicates with a vizard program, and looking at the message sent from the vizard program, the format looks pretty complex! I am not too worried about parsing the vizard message in C#, but am not so sure about writing the code to send a UDP packet from C# to Vizard that the vizard networking accepts.

So, I was wondering, is there any documentation on the format?

Thank,
Christian

[Enlil]

I looked into it further, and it turns out the message format is pickled - that is why it looks so odd. So I am working with IronPython to try to reverse the process and get at the data.

Christian

[farshizzo]

The data that is transmitted by Vizard is pickled using the cPickle module. To get access to the data on your end you can use the following code:

data = cPickle.loads(rawData)

The variable data should be a tuple containing:

1. The senders computer name
2. A tuple containing the positional data from the <network>.send() command
3. A dictionary containing keyword data from the <network>.send() command