method

bind

Source

/**
 * Returns a future for a [:ServerSocket:]. When the future
 * completes the server socket is bound to the given [address] and
 * [port] and has started listening on it.
 *
 * The [address] can either be a [String] or an
 * [InternetAddress]. If [address] is a [String], [bind] will
 * perform a [InternetAddress.lookup] and use the first value in the
 * list. To listen on the loopback adapter, which will allow only
 * incoming connections from the local host, use the value
 * [InternetAddress.LOOPBACK_IP_V4] or
 * [InternetAddress.LOOPBACK_IP_V6]. To allow for incoming
 * connection from the network use either one of the values
 * [InternetAddress.ANY_IP_V4] or [InternetAddress.ANY_IP_V6] to
 * bind to all interfaces or the IP address of a specific interface.
 *
 * If an IP version 6 (IPv6) address is used, both IP version 6
 * (IPv6) and version 4 (IPv4) connections will be accepted. To
 * restrict this to version 6 (IPv6) only, use [v6Only] to set
 * version 6 only.
 *
 * If [port] has the value [:0:] an ephemeral port will be chosen by
 * the system. The actual port used can be retrieved using the
 * [port] getter.
 *
 * The optional argument [backlog] can be used to specify the listen
 * backlog for the underlying OS listen setup. If [backlog] has the
 * value of [:0:] (the default) a reasonable value will be chosen by
 * the system.
 *
 * The optional argument [shared] specify whether additional binds
 * to the same `address`, `port` and `v6Only` combination is
 * possible from the same Dart process. If `shared` is `true` and
 * additional binds are performed, then the incoming connections
 * will be distributed between that set of `ServerSocket`s. One way
 * of using this is to have number of isolates between which
 * incoming connections are distributed.
 */
external static Future<ServerSocket> bind(address,
                                          int port,
                                          {int backlog: 0,
                                           bool v6Only: false,
                                           bool shared: false});