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

Default: TCP

Specifies the host where the application is running. You can specify a fixed value or programmatically specify the host by choosing Scripted and clicking Edit Script to access the script editor. See Extensibility or Scripting Basics for additional information.

Default: localhost 

Specifies the character set used for encoding messages. You can specify a fixed value or programmatically specify the character set by choosing Scripted and clicking Edit Script to access the script editor. See Extensibility or Scripting Basics for additional information.

Default: UTF-8 

Specifies the Specifies the 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.
• Specify none to configure the tool to continue immediately without waiting to read the next message from the server.

You can specify a fixed value or programmatically specify the read mode by choosing Scripted and clicking Edit Script to access the script editor. See Extensibility or Scripting Basics for additional information.

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 socket 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 socket will parse the string as a sequence of bytes in decimal values separated by spaces, for example, 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 to be added to the message that may be required. If specified, the message format will be <LENGTH_FIELD_BYTES><MESSAGE_DATA_BYTES><SUFFIX_BYTES>.