[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox v4 3/4] proxmox-async: add connect_to_udp helper

[Dominik Csapak]

so that we do not have to always check the target ipaddr family manually

Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com>
---
 proxmox-async/Cargo.toml            |  2 +-
 proxmox-async/src/io/mod.rs         |  3 +++
 proxmox-async/src/io/udp_connect.rs | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 proxmox-async/src/io/udp_connect.rs

diff --git a/proxmox-async/Cargo.toml b/proxmox-async/Cargo.toml
index f9a5b01..9756a23 100644
--- a/proxmox-async/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proxmox-async/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ flate2 = "1.0"
 futures = "0.3"
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 pin-utils = "0.1.0"
-tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["fs", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "sync"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["fs", "net", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "sync"] }
 walkdir = "2"
 
 proxmox-sys = { path = "../proxmox-sys", version = "0.2.0" }
diff --git a/proxmox-async/src/io/mod.rs b/proxmox-async/src/io/mod.rs
index 9a6d8a6..2dd49d4 100644
--- a/proxmox-async/src/io/mod.rs
+++ b/proxmox-async/src/io/mod.rs
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@
 
 mod async_channel_writer;
 pub use async_channel_writer::AsyncChannelWriter;
+
+mod udp_connect;
+pub use udp_connect::connect_to_udp;
diff --git a/proxmox-async/src/io/udp_connect.rs b/proxmox-async/src/io/udp_connect.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..878b150
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proxmox-async/src/io/udp_connect.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+use std::io;
+use std::net::SocketAddr;
+
+use tokio::net::{ToSocketAddrs, UdpSocket};
+
+/// Helper to connect to UDP addresses without having to manually bind to the correct ip address
+pub async fn connect_to_udp<A: ToSocketAddrs + std::fmt::Display>(
+    addr: A,
+) -> io::Result<UdpSocket> {
+    let socket = match tokio::net::lookup_host(&addr).await?.next() {
+        Some(SocketAddr::V4(_)) => UdpSocket::bind("0.0.0.0:0").await?,
+        Some(SocketAddr::V6(_)) => UdpSocket::bind("[::]:0").await?,
+        None => proxmox_sys::io_bail!("could not resolve address family {}", addr),
+    };
+
+    socket.connect(addr).await?;
+    Ok(socket)
+}
-- 
2.30.2