Question

i am developing an application in which i will be sending a string to peer(after converting it into NSData object) and also an UIImage again by converting into NSData object.

Now at receiving end i have a receive method

- (void) receiveData:(NSData *)data
            fromPeer:(NSString *)peer
           inSession:(GKSession *)session
             context:(void *)context

My problem is that,same receive method is called every time i send any data,and i have to use image and text data differently.

So how can i know,whether i data that i have received is a NSString object converted into NSData or it’s UIImage data converted into NSData.

please help me.

Answer 1

Take a look at Apple’s GKRocket sample code, specifically the implementation of sendData:ofType and receiveData:fromPeer:inSession:context: in SessionManager.m. You will need to define a set of “types” specific to your application and send them as a header in the NSData payload, and then read the header on the receiving end to determine how to handle the payload appropriately.