refactor: client is now running on a different thread

Shared/Network/LiteNetLib/LiteNetLibClient.cs

@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
+using System.Threading;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
 using LiteNetLib.Utils;
 
+using Syntriax.Engine.Core;
+
 namespace Syntriax.Engine.Network;
 
 public class LiteNetLibClient : LiteNetLibCommunicatorBase, INetworkCommunicatorClient
 {
     private readonly NetDataWriter netDataWriter = new();
 
+    private CancellationTokenSource? cancellationTokenSource = null;
+
     public INetworkCommunicatorClient Connect(string address, int port, string? password = null)
     {
         if (!UniverseObject.IsInUniverse)
@@ -25,4 +32,28 @@ public class LiteNetLibClient : LiteNetLibCommunicatorBase, INetworkCommunicator
 
         return this;
     }
+
+    protected override void OnEnteredUniverse(IUniverse universe)
+    {
+        cancellationTokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
+        PollEvents(cancellationTokenSource.Token);
+    }
+
+    protected override void OnExitedUniverse(IUniverse universe)
+    {
+        cancellationTokenSource?.Cancel();
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Client needs to send everything as soon as possible so 
+    /// the events are polled a separate thread running constantly 
+    /// </summary>
+    private async void PollEvents(CancellationToken cancellationToken) => await Task.Run(() =>
+    {
+        while (true)
+        {
+            Manager.PollEvents();
+            Thread.Sleep(1);
+        }
+    }, cancellationToken);
 }

Shared/Network/LiteNetLib/LiteNetLibCommunicatorBase.cs

@@ -25,19 +25,11 @@ public abstract class LiteNetLibCommunicatorBase : Behaviour, INetworkCommunicat
         return this;
     }
 
-    protected override void OnEnteredUniverse(IUniverse universe)
+    protected override void ExitedUniverse(IUniverseObject sender, IUniverse universe)
     {
-        universe.OnPreUpdate += PollEvents;
-    }
-
-    protected override void OnExitedUniverse(IUniverse universe)
-    {
-        universe.OnPreUpdate -= PollEvents;
-
         Stop();
     }
 
-    private void PollEvents(IUniverse sender, UniverseTime engineTime) => Manager.PollEvents();
     protected virtual void OnPacketArrived<T>(T packet, NetPeer peer) where T : INetworkPacket
     {
         if (!listeners.TryGetValue(typeof(T), out List<Delegate>? delegates))

Shared/Network/LiteNetLib/LiteNetLibServer.cs

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ using System.Linq;
 using LiteNetLib;
 using LiteNetLib.Utils;
 
+using Syntriax.Engine.Core;
+
 namespace Syntriax.Engine.Network;
 
 public class LiteNetLibServer : LiteNetLibCommunicatorBase, INetworkCommunicatorServer
@@ -42,7 +44,6 @@ public class LiteNetLibServer : LiteNetLibCommunicatorBase, INetworkCommunicator
         return this;
     }
 
-
     public INetworkCommunicatorServer SendToClient<T>(string to, T packet) where T : class, new()
     {
         bool isBroadcastToAll = to.CompareTo("*") == 0;
@@ -58,4 +59,8 @@ public class LiteNetLibServer : LiteNetLibCommunicatorBase, INetworkCommunicator
 
         return this;
     }
+
+    protected override void OnEnteredUniverse(IUniverse universe) => universe.OnPostUpdate += PollEvents;
+    protected override void OnExitedUniverse(IUniverse universe) => universe.OnPostUpdate -= PollEvents;
+    private void PollEvents(IUniverse sender, UniverseTime engineTime) => Manager.PollEvents();
 }