iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

Creating a data client

In the Creating a data server recipe of this chapter, we updated our BSDSocketServer class so we could set up a server that could receive data. In this recipe, we will be updating our BSDSocketClient class so we can set up a client to upload data to our data server.

Getting ready

This recipe is compatible with both iOS and OS X. No extra frameworks or libraries are required.

How to do it…

Let's update the BSDSocketClient class to include our data client.

Updating the BSDSocketClient header file

Since we will be able to use the same constructor (initWithAddress:andPort:) that we used when we connected to the echo server, all we need to do is to add a method to send the data itself. This method will be called sendData:toSocket: ...