Differences between C++ and C# AWS GameLift Server SDK

Hey zamazan4ik,

The idea behind the C# SDK update is that the socket.io library was creating a lot of issues for us (e.g. race condition), particularly in C#, so we have updated the C# architecture to get rid of socket.io, and while doing so, also updated it to use a lightweight and full-duplex protocol with open-source libraries in a large variety of languages (C#, C++, Java, JS being the required ones to support). Eventually, Websocket over HTTP was chosen due to the "variety of language' requirement; we have also considered using plain socket but eventually decided against it due to it not being available in open-source libraries of all aforementioned languages.

So, you can implement with either plain socket or websocket. There is no preference on the gamelift's side. Though, GameLift has only tested with websocket officially, so you could potentially have better support when going that route.

Thanks for the information! I will choose C# SDK approach for the Rust version of the SDK. HTTP + WebSocket is more preferrable for me than Socket.io (actually I don't like the idea of using Socket.io here). If you have any influence on AWS Docs team, will be awesome, if you put the information about the differences between SDKs somehwere in AWS GameLift Server SDKs documentation.

Thanks!

Btw, is there any additional form to post any feedback to the AWS GameLift team? E.g. about publishing officially Protobuf scheme as a part of the SDK? Now only unofficial reverse-engineered version is available and that's too inconvenient to use

Thanks, I have submitted a request to update the doc. Someone from GameLift will reply to this thread once the update is completed.

GLIFT-14761

We do have a backlog task to open source the SDK on Github, though I cannot guarantee when that would be. However, here is the protobuf scheme to unblock you: https://pastebin.com/CVzNKWkc

Thanks! Honestly few hours ago I just reverse-engineered the latest scheme: https://github.com/ZaMaZaN4iK/GameLift-Server-Protobuf :)

But thanks a lot! Would be awesome, if you be able to somehow to publish updated schema with every SDK release.

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• CoreCommands.proto
• GroupMessages.proto
• Packet.proto

Thanks! Exactly what I needed

Are you making a custom client SDK? :)

Yes, I was attempting to port to Java/Kotlin. Do you happen to know of an existing port? If not, will there be any issues with me publishing on github when I'm done?

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You can easily publish it to GitHub without any issues. Community already done some ports to other languages like JS, Go, Rust.

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https://github.com/zebehringer/GameLiftRealtimeKotlin

Thank you. I am very interested in this.