Hi all,
I have developed a client/server application and make use of socket to send/rcv data (data size: around 12KBytes), but I found that the input stream cannot fully read the data from server and the data I got an incompleted data. What happen with the socket and did anybody got the same experience as me and please kindly suggest some possible way to solve it. Thanks!!
Cheers,
oh_silly
Yup, u are right.
Actually it can be done by the following script:
Inputstream is = socket.getInputStream();
int got = 0;
while((got = is.read()) != -1){
System.out.println("......");
}
But will there be any case which makes the program loop inside while? My case is that the inputstream has received all necessary bytes from server but it can escape from the loop. Did my program have bug or the EOF flag was not issued by server? Please kindy advise.
Thanks for you guys attentions.
Cheers,
oh_silly
Use Socket.setSoTimeout() to set a read timeout in milliseconds to avert this case. I would set the timout at at least a minute. If it triggers you will get a SocketTimeoutException.
Also you should write that loop like this:
byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
int count;
while ((count = in.read(buffer)) > 0)
out.write(buffer, 0, count);
Reading into a buffer is many times as efficient as reading a byte at a time.