#ifndef LIBSOCKET_DGRAMCLIENT_H_A6969EEDFC57408B89EA3E965C00E811
#define LIBSOCKET_DGRAMCLIENT_H_A6969EEDFC57408B89EA3E965C00E811

# include "socket.hpp"
# include <string>
# include <unistd.h>
# include <string.h>

using std::string;

/**
 * @file dgramclient.hpp
 *
 * Contains the dgram_client_socket base class
 *
 *
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   (c) 2012, dermesser <lbo@spheniscida.de>

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 */

namespace libsocket
{
    /**
     * @addtogroup libsocketplusplus
     * @{
     */

    /**
     * @brief Represents a generic "client" datagram socket, i.e. a datagram socket which can be connected.
     */
    class dgram_client_socket : public virtual socket
    {
	protected:
	    bool connected; ///< Stores the connection state of the socket so other functions in this class can check if the socket is connected.
			    ///< The `connection()` method itself is implemented in derived classes, e.g. inet_dgram_client

	public:

	    dgram_client_socket(void);

	    friend dgram_client_socket& operator<<(dgram_client_socket& sock, const char* str);
	    friend dgram_client_socket& operator<<(dgram_client_socket& sock, const string& str);

	    ssize_t snd(const void* buf, size_t len, int flags=0); // flags: send()

	    // I
	    friend dgram_client_socket& operator>>(dgram_client_socket& sock, string& dest);

	    ssize_t rcv(void* buf, size_t len, int flags=0);

            // @deprecated
            bool getconn(void) const;

            bool is_connected(void) const;
    };

    /**
     * @}
     */
}
# endif
