Simple serial point-to-point communication protocol ---- sample code

Question

I had read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/815758/simple-serial-point-to-point-communication-protocol

and I'm doing the same thing, and I don't want to reinvent wheel...

are there any API or sample code?

PS: code in C/C++, python...

Answer 1

You could in a couple of days implement something like the Ash specification by Ember. It does address most of the issues pretty well.

Answer 2

See my answer , but go to Jeremy Bentham's TCP/IP Lean site

You can easily get it to speak normal IP protocols.

Answer 3

APIs, implemented by software, are product-specific and/or O/S-specific.

On an embedded system (which is the kind of system where serial comms is most prevalent) you'd use (perhaps buy) a library.