#ifndef HEARTBEATLISTENER_H
#define HEARTBEATLISTENER_H

#include <pthread.h>

/*!
 \brief Represents a listener to heartbeats.
 */
class HeartBeatListener {
public:
	/*! The number of bytes in the buffer for reading */
	enum { kMsgBufSize = 65000 };
	
	/*!
	 \brief Starts the listener connected to the given model on the given port.
	 \param model The model to alert when a heartbeat packet is receieved.
	 \pre model is not NULL.
	 \return thread id
	 */
	static pthread_t start(void *model);

	static void *initThread(void *);
	//pthread_t start(CommModel* model, int port);
	
};

#endif