I developed a couple of interactive socket-based web applications with my team, but it was always painful for me to document conditional data flow.
I used a sequence diagram like these
Is this the best way to document socket programming? Is there any UML standard for socket programming?
Edit: This is not a UML diagram, but a simple presentation.
To create a connection-oriented socket, for server programs and client programs it is necessary to use separate function sequences, so you can present your socket connection as:
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Have you considered using a UML protocol state machine to display a conditional data stream? See http://www.uml-diagrams.org/protocol-state-machine-diagrams.html#protocol-state-machine .