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Robustify ping parser

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by locating the current parser and the code that processes the current messages payload. Determine how lost bytes can cause new messages to be missed and where fixed-width payload lengths are validated. Done means the parser recovers from byte loss and rejects payloads with invalid fixed-width lengths, with corresponding coverage added where the project’s parser tests live.

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Description

Add some sort of concurrent parser or recursion to pick up new messages in what the current parser would think is the current messages payload, in the situation of bytes lost in transit.

Also sanity check payload length for fixed-width messages.

Dominant language
C++
Stars
19
Forks
17
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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