UDP send after connect not possible

[tlbtlbtlb]

Once a UDP socket is connected in libuv, you have to call send with a null address or else you get UV_EISCONN and nothing is sent. There seems to be no way to do this through the uvw API, since the addr parameter is passed by reference. In udp.cc the wrappers are like:

UVW_INLINE void UDPHandle::send(const sockaddr &addr, std::unique_ptr<char[]> data, unsigned int len) {
...
    req->send(get(), &addr);
}

Empirically it works to call it like

   sock->send(*(sockaddr *)nullptr, txbuf, txbuf_size);

But this is undefined behavior in C++, and the compiler (at least Clang++-10) warns accordingly.

I think the right answer is to have versions of UDPHandle::send that don't take an address parameter.

References:
http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/udp.html in the uv_udp_send section

[skypjack]

Sounds reasonable. We're working on a v3 branch that flips the project on its head. We'll add this function there probably. 👍

[baldvin-kovacs]

Hello! Would you accept a pull request to add a variant without the address, or should I fork it, or is v3 coming soon?

[skypjack]

Do you mean a variant as in std::variant? Why not a function overload as suggested initially? @baldvin-kovacs

[itayzafrir]

Hi @skypjack ,
Is there any progress with this? We would also like this overload.
Thanks.

[skypjack]

Not yet, sorry, I'm working on uvw to improve things but I don't have much spare time at the moment.