I want to connect multiple clients to one server, how do I do that?

[ducgiangx911]

I tried creating 2 clients to connect to the same server, but it only receives the first one, the second one is waiting for a connection.

[joe-at-startupmedia]

I am interested on how to do this as well. I have the same issue.

[joe-at-startupmedia]

The code has to be modified but this is how it works accepting multiple clients:

https://github.com/joe-at-startupmedia/golang-ipc/blob/91ac951aa624052216ded00999de5c3fffb19984/example/example.go

Notes:

• due to how the net.Listener Accept function works, it's a blocking method that prevents new client connections until the previous one closes Client.Close(). As such, the Server can only handle one active client connection at a time.
• in order to allow multiple Clients the Server has to manage multiple net.Listeners. I found the easiest way to do this is by managing multiple socket connections.
• the socket connections are dynamically allocated per each new StartClient call. This way we aren't limited in how many Clients we can use or unnecessarily allocating unneeded resources.
• in order to poll new Clients after call a server.Read call, a ServerManager must be used to loop through all of the latest client connections and poll the new Clients on the next server.Read iteration.
• Because Read is blocking by default, I added a ReadTimed method that times out after the provided duration.