start working on an irc client class

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diff --git a/src/client.rs b/src/client.rs
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+use std::{io, str};
+
+use message::Message;
+
+pub struct Client {
+    nick: String,
+    host: String,
+    port: u16,
+
+    connection: Option<io::BufferedStream<io::TcpStream>>,
+}
+
+impl Client {
+    pub fn new (nick: &str, host: &str, port: u16) -> Client {
+        Client {
+            nick: nick.to_string(),
+            host: host.to_string(),
+            port: port,
+            connection: None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn connect (&mut self) {
+        let mut stream = io::TcpStream::connect(self.host.as_slice(), self.port);
+        self.connection = Some(io::BufferedStream::new(stream.unwrap()));
+    }
+
+    pub fn read (&mut self) -> Message {
+        // \n isn't valid inside a message, so this should be fine. if the \n
+        // we find isn't preceded by a \r, this will be caught by the message
+        // parser.
+        match self.connection {
+            Some(ref mut conn) => {
+                let buf = conn.read_until(b'\n');
+                // XXX handle different encodings
+                // XXX proper error handling
+                Message::parse(str::from_utf8(buf.unwrap().as_slice()).unwrap()).unwrap()
+            },
+            None => fail!(),
+        }
+    }
+}