Internal tcp/ip utilities¶

contains useful method for reading from and writing to socket

class Licel.TCP_util.util(ip: str, port: int)¶

the util class holds utilities method for socket communication. the class is to be inherited by licelTCP and licelTrTCP

readResponse() → str¶

Read response from the command socket of the ethernet controller.

Returns:: response string
Return type:: str
Raises:: socket.timeout – if controller fails to respond within timeout period

recvall(nBins: int) → bytearray | None¶

receive the number of nBins specified

Parameters:: nBins (int) – number of bins to read. Note that a bin consists of uint16, so the total number of received bytes equals 2* bins
Returns:: bytearray of size (2*nBins) containing the raw data, or None if connection closed
Return type:: Optional[bytearray]

writeCommand(command: str) → None¶

Write the specified command to the ethernet controller.

Adds <CRLF> to each command before sending.