Package totalcross.net

Class Socket

java.lang.Object

totalcross.io.Stream

totalcross.net.Socket

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Closeable, java.lang.AutoCloseable

Direct Known Subclasses:

SSLSocket

public class Socket
extends Stream

Socket is a TCP/IP network socket.

Under Java and Windows CE, if no network is present, the socket constructor may hang for an extended period of time due to the implementation of sockets in the underlying OS. This is a known problem.

Here is an example showing data being written and read from a socket:

 Socket socket = new Socket("www.totalcross.com", 80);
 DataStream ds = new DataStream(socket);
 ds.writeBytes("GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n");
 String ack = socket.readLine();
 socket.close();
 

Important: you cannot open a socket before the main event loop. In other words, you cannot open a socket in the app's constructor, but CAN in the initUI method.

When using GPRS connections, it is very important that you set a big timeout (20 seconds at least), otherwise the connection will be closed before the data is fully flushed (which only occurs after Socket.close).

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static int	DEFAULT_OPEN_TIMEOUT	Default timeout value for socket creation
static int	DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT	Default timeout value for read operations
static int	DEFAULT_WRITE_TIMEOUT	Default timeout value for write operations
int	readTimeout	Stores the timeout value for read operations.
int	writeTimeout	Stores the timeout value for write operations.

Fields inherited from class totalcross.io.Stream

skipBuffer

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	Socket()	For internal use only
	Socket(java.lang.String host, int port)	Opens a socket with the given host, port and open timeout of 1500ms.
	Socket(java.lang.String host, int port, int timeout)	Opens a socket with the given host, port, open timeout.
	Socket(java.lang.String host, int port, int timeout, boolean noLinger)	Opens a socket with the given host, port, timeout and linger option.
	Socket(java.lang.String host, int port, int timeout, java.lang.String params)	Opens a socket with the given parameters.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	close()	Closes the socket.
protected void	finalize()
java.lang.String	getHost()	Returns the remote host which this socket is connected to, passed in the constructor.
java.lang.Object	getNativeSocket()	Used internally by the SSL classes.
int	getPort()	Returns the remote port which this socket is connected to, passed in the constructor.
int	readBytes(byte[] buf)	Reads bytes from the socket into a byte array, from offset 0 to buf.length.
int	readBytes(byte[] buf, int start, int count)	Reads bytes from the socket into a byte array.
java.lang.String	readLine()	Reads a line of text from this socket.
int	writeBytes(byte[] buf, int start, int count)	Writes to the socket.

Methods inherited from class totalcross.io.Stream

asInputStream, asOutputStream, asStream, asStream, skipBytes, wrapInputStream, wrapInputStreamToStream, write, writeBytes, writeBytes, writeBytes

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

readTimeout

public int readTimeout

Stores the timeout value for read operations. The value specifies the number of milliseconds to wait from the time of last activity before timing out a read operation. Passing a value of 0 sets no timeout causing any read operation to return immediately with or without data. The default read timeout is 5000 milliseconds.

writeTimeout

public int writeTimeout

Stores the timeout value for write operations. The value specifies the number of milliseconds to wait from the time of last activity before timing out a write operation. Passing a value of 0 sets no timeout causing any write operation to return immediately, successfully or not. The default write timeout is 2000 milliseconds.

DEFAULT_OPEN_TIMEOUT

public static final int DEFAULT_OPEN_TIMEOUT

Default timeout value for socket creation

See Also:

Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT

public static final int DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT

Default timeout value for read operations

See Also:

Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_WRITE_TIMEOUT

public static final int DEFAULT_WRITE_TIMEOUT

Default timeout value for write operations

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

Socket

protected Socket()

For internal use only

Socket

public Socket(java.lang.String host,
              int port)
       throws UnknownHostException,
              IOException

Opens a socket with the given host, port and open timeout of 1500ms.

Parameters:

host - the host name or IP address to connect to

port - the port number to connect to

Throws:

UnknownHostException

IOException

See Also:

Socket(String, int, int, String)

Socket

public Socket(java.lang.String host,
              int port,
              int timeout)
       throws UnknownHostException,
              IOException

Opens a socket with the given host, port, open timeout.

Parameters:

host - the host name or IP address to connect to

port - the port number to connect to

timeout - the specified timeout, in milliseconds.

Throws:

UnknownHostException

IOException

See Also:

Socket(String, int, int, String)

Socket

public Socket(java.lang.String host,
              int port,
              int timeout,
              java.lang.String params)
       throws UnknownHostException,
              IOException

Opens a socket with the given parameters. This method establishes a socket connection by looking up the given host and performing the 3 way TCP/IP handshake.

Parameters:

host - the host name or IP address to connect to

port - the port number to connect to

timeout - the specified timeout, in milliseconds.

params - the string specifying additional parameters to this socket. Each parameter is specified in a 'key=value' form and separated by a ';' from the next parameter. For example: 'p1=v1;p2=v2'. On BlackBerry, the following parameters are valid: 'apn=[value]', 'apnuser=[value]', 'apnpass=[value]', 'directtcp=[true|false]' and 'nolinger=[true|false]'. On Palm OS devices, the only valid parameter is 'nolinger=[true| false]'. If true, the socket is closed immediately, and no ack is waited from the server. Note that this must be done for the very first socket creation per application.

Throws:

UnknownHostException

IOException

Socket

public Socket(java.lang.String host,
              int port,
              int timeout,
              boolean noLinger)
       throws UnknownHostException,
              IOException

Opens a socket with the given host, port, timeout and linger option.

Parameters:

host - the host name or IP address to connect to

port - the port number to connect to

timeout - the specified timeout, in milliseconds.

noLinger - if true, the socket is closed immediately, and no ack is waited from the server. Note that this must be done for the very first socket creation per application.

Throws:

UnknownHostException

IOException

See Also:

Socket(String, int, int, String)

Method Detail

close

public void close()
           throws IOException

Closes the socket.

Specified by:

close in interface java.lang.AutoCloseable

Specified by:

close in interface java.io.Closeable

Throws:

IOException - If the socket is closed more than once

readBytes

public int readBytes(byte[] buf,
                     int start,
                     int count)
              throws IOException

Reads bytes from the socket into a byte array. Note that in the device it may return with less bytes than requested. Note also that, if -1 is returned and the lastError is 4626, please insist 3 or 4 more times, because it may work.

Specified by:

readBytes in class Stream

Parameters:

buf - the byte array to read data into

start - the start position in the byte array

count - the number of bytes to read

Returns:

The number of bytes actually read; or <= 0 if no data is available; or -1 if the server closed the connection or an error prevented the read operation from occurring.

Throws:

IOException

readBytes

public int readBytes(byte[] buf)
              throws IOException

Reads bytes from the socket into a byte array, from offset 0 to buf.length. Note that in the device it may return with less bytes than requested. Note also that, if -1 is returned and the lastError is 4626, please insist 3 or 4 more times, because it may work.

Parameters:

buf - the byte array to read data into

Returns:

The number of bytes actually read; or <= 0 if no data is available; or -1 if the server closed the connection or an error prevented the read operation from occurring.

Throws:

IOException

Since:

SuperWaba 5.6

See Also:

readBytes(byte[], int, int)

writeBytes

public int writeBytes(byte[] buf,
                      int start,
                      int count)
               throws IOException

Writes to the socket. Returns the number of bytes written or -1 if an error prevented the write operation from occurring. If data can't be written to the socket for approximately 2 seconds, the write operation will time out.

Specified by:

writeBytes in class Stream

Parameters:

buf - the byte array to write data from

start - the start position in the byte array

count - the number of bytes to write

Returns:

the number of bytes actually written

Throws:

IOException

readLine

public java.lang.String readLine()
                          throws IOException

Reads a line of text from this socket. Any char lower than space is considered a new line separator. This method correctly handles newlines with \\n or \\r\\n.

Note: this method is VERY slow since it reads a single character per time. Consider using new LineReader(socket) or new BufferedStream(socket) instead.

Returns:

the read line or null if nothing was read.

Throws:

IOException

Since:

SuperWaba 5.61

See Also:

LineReader, BufferedStream

finalize

protected void finalize()

Overrides:

finalize in class java.lang.Object

getNativeSocket

public java.lang.Object getNativeSocket()

Used internally by the SSL classes. Not available at the device.

getHost

public java.lang.String getHost()

Returns the remote host which this socket is connected to, passed in the constructor.

getPort

public int getPort()

Returns the remote port which this socket is connected to, passed in the constructor.