enet.host

Description

An ENet host for communicating with peers. On creation it will bind to a port on an address, unless otherwise specified, which will keep other applications from binding to the same port and address.

One can free the port by calling its destroy method; nil-ing the host object and calling collectgarbage() would work as well, since :destroy calls host:__gc internally, but this is cleaner:

local host = enet.host_create("*:6789")
host:destroy()

Functions

Function	Description
host:service	Wait for events, send and receive any ready packets.
host:check_events	Checks for any queued events and dispatches one if available.
host:compress_with_range_coder	Toggles an adaptive order-2 PPM range coder for the transmitted data of all peers.
host:connect	Connects a host to a remote host. Returns peer object associated with remote host.
host:flush	Sends any queued packets.
host:broadcast	Queues a packet to be sent to all connected peers.
host:channel_limit	Sets the maximum number of channels allowed.
host:bandwidth_limit	Sets the bandwidth limits of the host in bytes/sec.
host:get_socket_address	Deprecated version of host:get_socket_address.
host:socket_get_address	Returns a string that describes the socket address of the given host.
host:destroy	Destroys the host, freeing any bound ports and addresses. Alias for the host:__gc method.
host:total_sent_data	Returns the number of bytes that were sent through the given host.
host:total_received_data	Returns the number of bytes that were received by the given host.
host:service_time	Returns the timestamp of the last call to host:service() or host:flush().
host:peer_count	Returns the number of peers that are allocated for the given host.
host:get_peer	Returns the connected peer at the specified index (starting at 1).
host:__gc	Destroys the host, freeing any bound ports and addresses.

See Also

• lua-enet
• enet:host_create
• enet.event
• enet.peer