add readMessageSizeType method to NinePConnection

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/NinePConnection.kt b/src/main/kotlin/NinePConnection.kt
index 73ab5fa..ee9d5ba 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/NinePConnection.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/NinePConnection.kt
@@ -63,5 +63,18 @@ class NinePConnection(netPackTrans: NetworkPacketTransporter) : NinePTranslator
         return String(this.npt.receiveFixed(length.toULong()).toByteArray())
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Read the message size and type.
+     *
+     * @return A pair in which the first element is the message size in bytes and the second is the message type as a
+     * [NinePMessageType] constant.
+     */
+    private fun readMessageSizeType(): Pair<UInt, NinePMessageType> {
+        return Pair(
+            readInteger(4).toInt().toUInt(),
+            NinePMessageType.fromByte(readInteger(1).toByte())
+        )
+    }
+
     // TODO: implement methods from NinePTranslator
 }
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