More than one request per socket connection possible?

[spamwax]

I am using this crate over standard librasy one mainly because of Read implementation.
I have two binary crates acting as server/client both of which use serde_json to serialize data.

After creating a unix-domain stream socket and connecting it to server's address, my client successfully uses socket.send() and reports back number of bytes sent.

However on server side the following never returns:

let (sock, addr) = server_socket.accept().unwrap();
let item: MyStrucnt = serde_json::from_read(sock).unwrap();

The only way I can force from_read to finish deserialization is to drop the socket on client side, which brings me to my question.
Is it possible to establish a socket connection between server/cli and communicate multiple messages back & forth between them while taking advantage of Read implementation in this crate? (I don't want to drop my client socket and re-create it every time I have to send a message accross!)

Confusing part for me is that the socket.send() on client side returns but seems server doesn't get the memo that payload is delivered & it's time to finish the deserialization operation.

How do you go about doing this type of communication?
Do I need to somehow attach an EOF to serialized data in client side to signal server?

Any input is appreciated.

[alexcrichton]

Thanks for the report! Unfortunately I don't have a ton of time to help out with networking knowledge in general, and this isn't a bug in this crate. For dealing with EOF I'd recommend looking into shutdown and various options that can enable.