Specifies the protocol used to transmit messages. Options are TCP and or UDP.

Default: TCP

Specifies the port that the socket listener will listen on for incoming connections. Specify 0 to automatically select an open port. After the asset is deployed, the selected port will be printed in the console.

Specifies the number of acceptor threads used to receive messages. Not applicable if Protocol is set to UDP.

1 is the minimum value allowed.

Default: 2

Specifies the number of worker threads used to process messages.

1 is the minimum value allowed.

Default: 50 

Specifies the character set used to decode and encode bytes.

Default: UTF-8 

Specifies the listener mode for reading messages.

• Specify fixed for fixed length messages that are always the same size.
• Specify prefixed for messages that have an int (4 bytes) length prefix at the beginning of the message.
• Specify prefixed-string for messages with a series of string digits prefixing the message.
• Specify token for messages that are delimited by an end character or uni code sequence.

Default: prefixed 

Determines the length of the length field. The desired number of bytes will be read and converted to a number to determine the length of the message. You can specify the following values: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , or 8 .

The default is to read 4 bytes and convert it to an integer.

Indicates if the length read should also include the length field size.

For example, if the option is enabled, a 4-byte message would send a length value of 8. This is because the default length of the length field is 4 bytes and will be added to the message body length. 

Default: true

Specifies the type of conversion used to convert the static prefix/suffix into bytes.

• Specify string and the listener will use getBytes with with the configured character set to convert to bytes.
• Specify hex and the string will be parsed as a sequence of hexadecimal values. For example, 0a 0d would be the bytes 10 13 .
• Specify byte and the listener will parse the string as a sequence of bytes in decimal values separated by spaces, e.g., 10 13 .

Default: hex 

Specifies a prefix segment to be added to the message that may be required. If specified, the message format will be <PREFIX_BYTES><LENGTH_FIELD_BYTES><MESSAGE_DATA_BYTES>.

Specifies a suffix segment of the message that may be required by the socket. If specified, the message format will be <LENGTH_FIELD_BYTES><MESSAGE_DATA_BYTES><SUFFIX_BYTES>.