WorldPackets now holds what a client sends a world server, one struct per
packet with Serialize/Deserialize: Validation, CharacterListRequest,
CharacterCreateRequest, CharacterLoginRequest, GameMessage,
CharacterDeleteRequest, CharacterRenameRequest, LevelLoadComplete,
PositionUpdate, MailPacket, RoutePacket, StringCheck, GeneralChatMessage,
HandleFunness, UIHelpTop5. WorldServer's switch became a dispatch map of
handlers (each overrides Handle in WorldServer.cpp, logic unchanged:
dashboard hooks, LoadPlayer, chat logging, migration checks, message
inspector capture all still run); a packet that does not deserialize is
logged and dropped. UserManager's create/delete/rename take the structs.
The answers are ClientPackets (the CLIENT service): LoadStaticZone,
CharacterListResponse, CharacterCreateResponse, CharacterRenameResponse,
DeleteCharacterResponse, TransferToWorld, ServerStates, CreateCharacter,
ChatModerationString, MakeGMResponse, HTTPMonitorInfoResponse and
DebugOutput, built at the call sites (world server, UserManager, slash
commands, dashboard actions, components, migration). The world -> chat
forward of a routed packet is ChatPackets::RoutedFromClient. All
WorldPackets::Send* functions, HTTPMonitorInfo and the ClientPackets parse
functions are gone. The architecture doc now states the file rule: a
packet lives in the file of the ServiceType in its header.
No wire change. Verified against frozen verbatim copies of the old code
(tests/dGameTests/dNetTests/Legacy/WorldPacketsLegacy.h): every response
is sent through the old function and the struct over grids of inputs
(all enum values, strings of every length class, IDs, >64 moderation
segments, big XML) and must match byte for byte; every request is read
by the old code and the struct and must give the same values; plus
golden bytes, round trips, truncation checks and a field width mutation
that made the tests fail. Only differences: malformed requests are
dropped instead of handled with partial values, and LevelLoadComplete now
reads the zone ID the client sends after it (lu_packets and captures show
the 1.10.64 client always sends it; DLU ignored it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First step of moving hand written bitstream code to struct based
messages (see docs/PacketArchitecture.md). No wire changes.
- GameMsg is now only a server-internal event (delivered to handlers
registered with RegisterMsg); NetGameMsg is a wire message with
Send(sysAddr) (UNASSIGNED broadcasts), SendToClient(sysAddr) (one
client, never broadcasts), WritePacket, Serialize, Deserialize and
Handle. Mixing them up is now a compile error. NetGameMsgEvent<T> /
DeliverLocally carry a wire message to local handlers; loot drops,
pickup, the object debugger, GM invisibility and model RequestUse
use them. The GM invisibility message keeps its target, so its bytes
are unchanged.
- Behaviour change: GameMessageHandler logs and drops messages whose
Deserialize fails instead of handling them with default fields (the
4 messages already registered: RequestUse, RequestServerObjectInfo,
ShootingGalleryFire, PickupItem).
- LUBitStream (kept as on main) gets a virtual destructor (Mail deleted
derived packets through the base) and WritePacket, also used by
ChatPackets::SendRoutedMsg with identical bytes.
- BitStreamUtils::WriteOptional/ReadOptional for default-flag fields
and WriteLengthPrefixed/ReadLengthPrefixed for length prefixed
strings.
- Every message ID enumerator (MessageType::*, ServiceType, Mail's
wire enums) is pinned with static_asserts, so renumbering or removing
one fails to compile.
- Tests: dServerMock copies each sent packet (it kept a pointer to the
caller's destroyed BitStream); PacketTestUtils.h compares packets bit
for bit; helper tests use hand computed golden bytes and equality
with the hand written patterns they replace; compile-time checks
keep the wire/internal split in place.
- docs/PacketArchitecture.md: survey, target architecture,
conventions, verification method and migration plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
