Netty beginner question

[goodnews...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I find when I do several write and flush operation back to back from a netty server, they all come as one packet to my AIR client.
Is there any way to force packets to come as seperate packets instead of jamming together into one big packet that doesn't involve waiting milliseconds?

,James

[goodnews...@gmail.com]

Background: I'm toying with making a multiplayer game. I already have registration and login working.

I just found that if I send several .writes at the same time, they come as a single packet on receive instead of multiple packets.

I know a couple ways to resolve this, but I was just wondering if there is some way to seperate the packets aside from time delaying them.

[Rogan Dawes]

Use writeAndFlush() to send the packet immediately.

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[Alexander Lehmann]

I assume the network stack will decide how to put the packets together, which means that there may be packages that are split into parts if they are too long or are put together into a big packet (at least with tcp) so you cannot rely on either

If you use some kind of framing or use a separation byte to make sure you can reconstruct the packages if they are changed, that would be safe in all cases, e.g. prefix each packet with a size byte or word (depending on how large your packets can be).

[James Sager]

Thanks, I figured as much.  Right now, I'm being lazy and delaying 250ms for a prototype, but I can fix it later