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<class name="PacketPeer" inherits="Reference" category="Core" version="3.1">
	<brief_description>
		Abstraction and base class for packet-based protocols.
	</brief_description>
	<description>
		PacketPeer is an abstraction and base class for packet-based protocols (such as UDP). It provides an API for sending and receiving packets both as raw data or variables. This makes it easy to transfer data over a protocol, without having to encode data as low level bytes or having to worry about network ordering.
	</description>
	<tutorials>
	</tutorials>
	<demos>
	</demos>
	<methods>
		<method name="get_available_packet_count" qualifiers="const">
			<return type="int">
			</return>
			<description>
				Return the number of packets currently available in the ring-buffer.
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="get_packet">
			<return type="PoolByteArray">
			</return>
			<description>
				Get a raw packet.
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="get_packet_error" qualifiers="const">
			<return type="int" enum="Error">
			</return>
			<description>
				Return the error state of the last packet received (via [method get_packet] and [method get_var]).
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="get_var">
			<return type="Variant">
			</return>
			<description>
				Get a Variant.
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="put_packet">
			<return type="int" enum="Error">
			</return>
			<argument index="0" name="buffer" type="PoolByteArray">
			</argument>
			<description>
				Send a raw packet.
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="put_var">
			<return type="int" enum="Error">
			</return>
			<argument index="0" name="var" type="Variant">
			</argument>
			<description>
				Send a Variant as a packet.
			</description>
		</method>
	</methods>
	<members>
		<member name="allow_object_decoding" type="bool" setter="set_allow_object_decoding" getter="is_object_decoding_allowed">
		</member>
	</members>
	<constants>
	</constants>
</class>
