Socket question

Here is some code for the thread/process to wait for input to arrive:

while ((input = in.readLine()) !=null)

{

//do stuff

}

I am trying to make it so I can see if the buffer has anything in it. If there is something there, read from it and do something. If the buffer is empty (received nothing from the socket) then stop and do something else.

Basically:

if (in.bufferEmpty() ==false)

{

//do something - socket has received data

}

else

{

//do something else, like, quit

}

I can't seem to do something like that. The input streams don't allow me (from what I can tell) to check on the internals of the buffer. So I have to write my own stream readers, etc, but I fanthom this is difficult to do.

Any help would be great. Thanks.

[1250 byte] By [dayrinnia] at [2007-10-3 4:34:36]