#!/usr/bin/perl
#< udp-client.pl - 20120311
# from : 
use warnings;
use strict;
use POE;
use IO::Socket::INET;
use constant DATAGRAM_MAXLEN => 1024;

my $PORT = 5500;
my $HOST = "127.0.0.1";

POE::Session->create(
  inline_states => {
    _start       => \&client_start,
    get_datagram => \&client_read,
  }
);
POE::Kernel->run();
exit;

sub client_start {
  my $kernel = $_[KERNEL];
  my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto => 'udp',);
  die "Couldn't create client socket: $!" unless $socket;
  $kernel->select_read($socket, "get_datagram");
  my $message = "This is a test.";
  print "Sending '$message'\n";
  my $server_address = pack_sockaddr_in($PORT, inet_aton($HOST));
  send($socket, $message, 0, $server_address) == length($message)
    or die "Trouble sending message: $!";
}

sub client_read {
  my ($kernel, $socket) = @_[KERNEL, ARG0];
  my $remote_address = recv($socket, my $message = "", DATAGRAM_MAXLEN, 0);
  return unless defined $remote_address;
  my ($peer_port, $peer_addr) = unpack_sockaddr_in($remote_address);
  my $human_addr = inet_ntoa($peer_addr);
  print "(client) $human_addr : $peer_port sent us $message\n";
  send($socket, $message, 0, $remote_address) == length($message)
    or warn "Trouble sending response: $!";
}

# eof - udp-client.pl