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•Created by Eyal on 6/13/2024 in #help

Sockets and WPF

I have a multiplayer trivia server written in C++, in some part of the code I use a condition variable after a client has asked a specific request in order to give an answer when all of the users have finished answering. My client is written in C# and whenever a client ask the request I mentioned earlier their app crushes. Here is the client code to send a request and get a response in the following protocol (1byte = request code, 4bytes = buffer length, Xbytes = buffer with data):

c#
public JObject sendAndRecive(JObject packet, NetworkStream stream, byte code)
{
    string jsonString = packet.ToString();
    
    byte[] data_len_bytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(jsonString.Length);
    //reverse to reverse the endian orientation 
    data_len_bytes = data_len_bytes.Reverse().ToArray();

    var messageBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonString);

    byte[] message_and_len = data_len_bytes.Concat(messageBytes).ToArray();

    var full_msg_byte = Enumerable.Prepend(message_and_len, code).ToArray();

    stream.Write(full_msg_byte, 0, full_msg_byte.Length);

    // Receive response from the server
    byte[] len_buffer = new byte[5];
    int len_bytesRead = stream.Read(len_buffer, 0, len_buffer.Length);

    int data_len = (len_buffer[1] << 24) | (len_buffer[2] << 16) | (len_buffer[3] << 8) | len_buffer[4];

    byte[] buffer = new byte[data_len];

    //read from stream 
    int bytesRead = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
    //get the string 
    string utf8String = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
    //turn string into json 
    JObject jsonObject = JObject.Parse(utf8String);

    return jsonObject;
}

c#
public JObject sendAndRecive(JObject packet, NetworkStream stream, byte code)
{
    string jsonString = packet.ToString();
    
    byte[] data_len_bytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(jsonString.Length);
    //reverse to reverse the endian orientation 
    data_len_bytes = data_len_bytes.Reverse().ToArray();

    var messageBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonString);

    byte[] message_and_len = data_len_bytes.Concat(messageBytes).ToArray();

    var full_msg_byte = Enumerable.Prepend(message_and_len, code).ToArray();

    stream.Write(full_msg_byte, 0, full_msg_byte.Length);

    // Receive response from the server
    byte[] len_buffer = new byte[5];
    int len_bytesRead = stream.Read(len_buffer, 0, len_buffer.Length);

    int data_len = (len_buffer[1] << 24) | (len_buffer[2] << 16) | (len_buffer[3] << 8) | len_buffer[4];

    byte[] buffer = new byte[data_len];

    //read from stream 
    int bytesRead = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
    //get the string 
    string utf8String = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
    //turn string into json 
    JObject jsonObject = JObject.Parse(utf8String);

    return jsonObject;
}

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