Yes I need to do it as 8 byte buffer. Convert the endianess to the network then back to host for 8 byte integer. I think XML is great for command validation and CLI auto typing, help etc. Besides parsing issue, XML can not handle binary data directly.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:31 PM, John Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you explain how you are trying to write to the socket and how you > are receiving? > > If you use write or send you just supply a pointer to the value and a > length to write, viz - written = write(sokfd, (char *)fptr, 8); where > fptr is a pointer to your floating point number. > > We use Sqlite embedded as RPCs but actually encapsulate the data as XML > and send floating point or other numbers in text form so that there can > never be byte ordering or format issues. SQL also maps quite nicely to > XML. The downside is the complexity of the XML parser at the receive end. > > Alex Katebi wrote: > > I am trying to implement remote procedure calls (RPC) for SQLite API to > be > > used in my application. > > In particular sqlite3_column_double( ) returns a floating point double. > > How can I write this double value into a TCP socket? > > I have tried writing 8 bytes as integer values but the received valued at > > the other end of the socket is incorrect. > > I don't have a lot of experience with real numbers. Can someone help? > > > > Thanks, > > -Alex > > _______________________________________________ > > sqlite-users mailing list > > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
