Datagrams
The Unreliable Datagram Extension
Unreliable datagrams are not part of QUIC (RFC 9000) itself, but a feature that is added by a QUIC extension (RFC 9221). As other extensions, it can be negotiated during the handshake. Support can be enabled by setting the quic.Config.EnableDatagram flag. Note that this doesn’t guarantee that the peer also supports datagrams. Whether or not the feature negotiation succeeded can be learned from the ConnectionState.SupportsDatagrams obtained from Connection.ConnectionState().
QUIC DATAGRAMs are a new QUIC frame type sent in QUIC 1-RTT packets (i.e. after completion of the handshake). Therefore, they’re end-to-end encrypted and congestion-controlled. However, if a DATAGRAM frame is deemed lost by QUIC’s loss detection mechanism, they are not retransmitted.
Sending and Receiving Datagrams
Datagrams are sent using the SendDatagram method on the quic.Connection:
conn.SendDatagram([]byte("foobar"))And received using ReceiveDatagram:
msg, err := conn.ReceiveDatagram(context.Background())Note that this code path is currently not optimized. It works for datagrams that are sent occasionally, but it doesn’t achieve the same throughput as writing data on a stream. Please get in touch on issue #3766 if your use case relies on high datagram throughput, or if you’d like to help fix this issue.