Network file transfer

[metalstorm]

Thank you for your reply Norman,

For my little and somwhat basic test app I have this as my client and server
pipelineFactory ( copied from a tutorial)

		// pipeline.addLast("framer", new DelimiterBasedFrameDecoder(8192,
		// Delimiters.lineDelimiter()));
		pipeline.addLast("decoder", new StringDecoder());
		pipeline.addLast("encoder", new StringEncoder());

		// and then business logic.
		pipeline.addLast("handler", new TimeClientHandler());

I think i understand what each part does, i just don't know how to go about
it. (I understand the business handler class thought, that's all fine for
now i think)

'Framer' was removed in this example because messages would have to have
/n/r at the end to be read / writen, which i didn't want.

So from the docs:

Protocol Decoder - translates binary data (e.g. ChannelBuffer) into a Java
object.
Protocol Encoder - translates a Java object into binary data.

So for c# sending files over tcp, data is read from a file into a fileStream
then out of that into a networkstream which then goes the opposite was at
the other end.

So in netty, once data is read from a  file into a filestream what process
must it go through (encoder) before it is sent, from what i understand it is
already in binary data; which begs the question what about the other end as
well. 

I cannot see what a framer would do in this situation (but tbh i'm not
entirely sure what a framer does really)

Finally, you say you can't block the thread so you can't do while(read)
think of thing, how else is reading from the network and writing to a file
accomplished?

Thank you for your time.

P.s I am a kinesthetic learner, please provide source code where possible so
that I can learn and build upon it.






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