/* * Copyright (c) 2000 David Flanagan. All rights reserved. * This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. * It is provided AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied. * You may study, use, and modify it for any non-commercial purpose. * You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice. * For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book (recommended), * visit http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples2. */ package com.davidflanagan.examples.net; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; /** * This program connects to a server at a specified host and port. * It reads text from the console and sends it to the server. * It reads text from the server and sends it to the console. **/ public class GenericClient { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { try { // Check the number of arguments if (args.length != 2) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Wrong number of args"); // Parse the host and port specifications String host = args[0]; int port = Integer.parseInt(args[1]); // Connect to the specified host and port Socket s = new Socket(host, port); // Set up streams for reading from and writing to the server. // The from_server stream is final for use in the inner class below final Reader from_server=new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()); PrintWriter to_server = new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream()); // Set up streams for reading from and writing to the console // The to_user stream is final for use in the anonymous class below BufferedReader from_user = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); // Pass true for auto-flush on println() final PrintWriter to_user = new PrintWriter(System.out, true); // Tell the user that we've connected to_user.println("Connected to " + s.getInetAddress() + ":" + s.getPort()); // Create a thread that gets output from the server and displays // it to the user. We use a separate thread for this so that we // can receive asynchronous output Thread t = new Thread() { public void run() { char[] buffer = new char[1024]; int chars_read; try { // Read characters until the stream closes while((chars_read = from_server.read(buffer)) != -1) { // Loop through the array of characters, and // print them out, converting all \n characters // to the local platform's line terminator. // This could be more efficient, but it is probably // faster than the network is, which is good enough for(int i = 0; i < chars_read; i++) { if (buffer[i] == '\n') to_user.println(); else to_user.print(buffer[i]); } to_user.flush(); } } catch (IOException e) { to_user.println(e); } // When the server closes the connection, the loop above // will end. Tell the user what happened, and call // System.exit(), causing the main thread to exit along // with this one. to_user.println("Connection closed by server."); System.exit(0); } }; // We set the priority of the server-to-user thread above to be // one level higher than the main thread. We shouldn't have to do // this, but on some operating systems, output sent to the console // doesn't appear when a thread at the same priority level is // blocked waiting for input from the console. t.setPriority(Thread.currentThread().getPriority() + 1); // Now start the server-to-user thread t.start(); // In parallel, read the user's input and pass it on to the server. String line; while((line = from_user.readLine()) != null) { to_server.print(line + "\n"); to_server.flush(); } // If the user types a Ctrl-D (Unix) or Ctrl-Z (Windows) to end // their input, we'll get an EOF, and the loop above will exit. // When this happens, we stop the server-to-user thread and close // the socket. s.close(); to_user.println("Connection closed by client."); System.exit(0); } // If anything goes wrong, print an error message catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e); System.err.println("Usage: java GenericClient "); } } }