thanks johan

RH-Engine/JSONParser.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Net.Sockets;
+using System.Text;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
+
+namespace RH_Engine
+{
+    class JSONParser
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// parses the given response from the server into strings
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="msg">the message gotten from the server, without the length prefix</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static string[] Parse(string msg)
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        
+    }
+}

RH-Engine/Program.cs

@@ -5,38 +5,28 @@ using System.Text;
 
 namespace RH_Engine
 {
-    class Program
+    internal class Program
     {
-        static void Main(string[] args)
+        private static void Main(string[] args)
         {
-
-            
             TcpClient client = new TcpClient("145.48.6.10", 6666);
 
-            WriteTextMessage(client, "{\"id\" : \"session/list\"}");
+            WriteTextMessage(client, "{\r\n\"id\" : \"session/list\"\r\n}");
             ReadPrefMessage(client.GetStream());
             Console.WriteLine("got response " + ReadTextMessage(client));
         }
 
-
-
         public static void WriteTextMessage(TcpClient client, string message)
         {
-
             byte[] msg = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(message);
             byte[] res = new byte[msg.Length + 4];
 
-            Array.Copy(GetPacketLength(msg.Length), 0,res, 0, 4);
-
+            Array.Copy(GetPacketLength(msg.Length), 0, res, 0, 4);
             Array.Copy(msg, 0, res, 4, msg.Length);
-            var stream = new StreamWriter(client.GetStream(), Encoding.Unicode);
-            {
-                stream.Write(res);
-                stream.Flush();
-            }
+
+            client.GetStream().Write(res);
 
             Console.WriteLine("sent message " + message);
-           
         }
 
         public static string ReadTextMessage(TcpClient client)
@@ -44,18 +34,17 @@ namespace RH_Engine
             var stream = new StreamReader(client.GetStream(), Encoding.ASCII);
             {
                 Console.WriteLine("reading...");
-                
-               
+
                 int length = stream.Read();
                 Console.WriteLine(length);
 
                 return "";
             }
-            
         }
 
         private static byte[] GetPacketLength(int length)
         {
+            Console.WriteLine("length got: " + length);
             byte[] packetLength = new byte[4];
 
             for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
@@ -63,30 +52,29 @@ namespace RH_Engine
                 packetLength[i] = (byte)(length >> (8 * i));
             }
 
+            Console.WriteLine("packet length: " + BitConverter.ToString(packetLength));
             return packetLength;
         }
+
         public static string ReadPrefMessage(NetworkStream stream)
         {
             byte[] lengthBytes = new byte[4];
 
             stream.Read(lengthBytes, 0, 4);
 
-            int length = (int)(lengthBytes[0] | (lengthBytes[1] << 8) | (lengthBytes[1] << 16) | (lengthBytes[1] << 24));
+            int length = BitConverter.ToInt32(lengthBytes);
 
             byte[] buffer = new byte[length];
             int totalRead = 0;
 
             //read bytes until stream indicates there are no more
-            do
-            {
-                int read = stream.Read(buffer, totalRead, buffer.Length - totalRead);
-                totalRead += read;
-                Console.WriteLine("ReadMessage: " + read);
-            } while (stream.DataAvailable);
+
+            int read = stream.Read(buffer, totalRead, buffer.Length - totalRead);
+            totalRead += read;
+            Console.WriteLine("ReadMessage: " + read);
+            Console.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer, 4, length - 4));
 
             return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, totalRead);
-
         }
-
     }
-}
+}