Devlog 3:
Hey y’all new day new ambitions, at least i dont have them. Jokes apart, today I implemented something which bridges the gap more towards the actual file transfer. I added the binary to ASCII and vice versa conversion for receiving and sending packets respectively. Earlier to keep things simple, I was just sending std::string packets, but files cannot be sent that way. Thats one of the foundational stepping stone for this. Apart from this, I also improved the readability for the enum values for payload_type (for which I was kinda responsible in the first place lol). I used to start the numbers with 0…examples: 010, 002, etc. They all represent octal values in C++. I didnt wanna get into that mess so I just removed it. I also added a necessary check to see if the receiving packet contains text or a file chunk (tho only text for now since Ive not implemented the file transfer yet). Im yet to do that flag for the sending as well, but not before I add file handling.

Nowadays, I’m just changing the architecture rather than functionality and features. Since I made this project for file transfer than chatting, I think I’d keep both of them, because I have one of them ready, and why not?

Thanks have a great day!