Using OnSend and OnReceive

[MickeyKnox]

I would like to use the SFML Packets, but not the SFML Sockets.
To do this, i thought i could just use the OnSend and OnReceive
methods, in order to feed the packet data to my network library
and vice versa.

However, those methods are private and i can't just call them.
I don't really understand what is the purpose of them being
private.

I guess i could just alter the SFML sourcecode to my needs, but
i would prefer not to do that.

Is there an more elegant approach?

[Laurent]

I don't really understand what is the purpose of them being
private.

The purpose is to avoid this kind of situation, where users try to do silly things

Basically, you don't need to call OnSend/OnReceive if you don't subclass sf::Packet. These functions exist only to allow custom processing to happen before sending or after receiving data.

[MickeyKnox]

Well, i had a look in SocketTCP.cpp, particularly in the Send(Packet&)
method. The OnSend method of the Packet is called in there, to get
the data. This is possible, because this class is declared a friend
in Packet.

This is basically what i want to do myself.

I don't want to use the Socket class of SFML, but rather another library
(ENet to be specific). I don't think this is a silly thing.

So maybe i shall put my question another way:
How can i get the data in the packet without modifying the SFML source code?

[MickeyKnox]

Nevermind, i just found the GetData method in Packet, which is public.

And it actually makes sense, that SocketTCP calls OnSend instead of GetData.

Sorry to bother...

[Laurent]

Nevermind, i just found the GetData method in Packet, which is public.

That's what I meant, the default implementation of OnSend and OnReceive does nothing more than forwarding to public functions that you can call directly.

I don't want to use the Socket class of SFML, but rather another library
(ENet to be specific). I don't think this is a silly thing.

"Silly" was refering to calling OnSend/OnReceive on user side, not using sf::Packet without sf::Socket