From bbed6bb6536819e8e12c851c4cc52bbeb82716a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mars Ultor <krishna@ayyalasomayajula.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:01:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] established buffer, must now switch to json

---
 example-host-config.toml            |  1 +
 src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.cpp | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.hpp |  6 ++++++
 src/main-daemon.cpp                 | 14 +++++++++++++-
 src/shared-utils/objects.cpp        |  1 -
 src/shared-utils/objects.hpp        |  2 +-
 6 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.cpp
 create mode 100644 src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.hpp

diff --git a/example-host-config.toml b/example-host-config.toml
index a7ace8a..067ab66 100644
--- a/example-host-config.toml
+++ b/example-host-config.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 [hostname]
 base_path="https://tracker.example.com"
+inter_comm_port=8032
diff --git a/src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.cpp b/src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8759962
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#include "socket-manager.hpp"
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <thread>
+
+void start_daemon(std::uint16_t port){
+  int server_socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
+    sockaddr_in server_address;
+    server_address.sin_family = AF_INET;
+    server_address.sin_port = htons(8080);
+    server_address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
+    bind(server_socket, (struct sockaddr*)&server_address,
+         sizeof(server_address));
+
+    // listening to the assigned socket
+    listen(server_socket, 5);
+    while(true){
+      int client_socket = accept(server_socket, nullptr,nullptr);
+      std::thread client_handling_thread = std::thread{handle_client, client_socket};
+  }
+}
+
+void handle_client(int client_socket){
+
+}
diff --git a/src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.hpp b/src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.hpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ba68de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/daemon-utils/socket-manager.hpp
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#pragma once
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+void handle_client(int client_socket);
+void start_daemon(std::uint16_t port);
diff --git a/src/main-daemon.cpp b/src/main-daemon.cpp
index 5f8aa99..a16b4f3 100644
--- a/src/main-daemon.cpp
+++ b/src/main-daemon.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
+#include "spdlog/common.h"
 #include "spdlog/spdlog.h"
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <filesystem>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <toml++/toml.hpp>
 // This is the *daemon* 
@@ -6,9 +9,18 @@
 int main() {
     std::cout << "Hello from the email tracker's daemon (C++23)\n";
     spdlog::info("Logger is functional.");
+    spdlog::set_level(spdlog::level::debug);
+    
+    bool does_exist_config = std::filesystem::exists("host-config.toml");
+    spdlog::debug("Host config existential status: {}", does_exist_config);
+    if (!does_exist_config) return -1;
     
     auto config =  toml::parse_file("host-config.toml");
-    
+    std::string http_server_fqdn = config["hostname"]["base_path"].value_or("http://example.com");
+    std::uint16_t inter_comm_port = config["hostname"]["inter_comm_port"].value_or(8033);
+
+    spdlog::debug("Path collected: {}", http_server_fqdn);
+    spdlog::debug("Port collected for inter-process communication {}", inter_comm_port);
     return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/shared-utils/objects.cpp b/src/shared-utils/objects.cpp
index b4b8237..fe086be 100644
--- a/src/shared-utils/objects.cpp
+++ b/src/shared-utils/objects.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,5 @@
 namespace serializable {
   template <typename S>
   void serialize(S &s, HandshakeConnection &object){
-    s.value2b(object.payload); 
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/shared-utils/objects.hpp b/src/shared-utils/objects.hpp
index 9a1b0bf..8588f8e 100644
--- a/src/shared-utils/objects.hpp
+++ b/src/shared-utils/objects.hpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #pragma once 
-#include <bitsery/bitsery.h>
+
 #include <cstdint>
 
 namespace serializable{