/* * Copyright (c) 2004 David Flanagan. All rights reserved. * This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3nd 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, * including teaching and use in open-source projects. * You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice. * For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book, * please visit http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples3. */ package je3.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 from the server until the // stream closes, and write them to the console while((chars_read = from_server.read(buffer)) != -1) { to_user.write(buffer, 0, chars_read); 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); } }; // 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 + "\r\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 "); } } }