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I want to read the output from the console

After a long period of searching for my problem, I have no other idea, I have to ask here.
I search for a method to read the console output or System.out to a JavaFX TextArea but I don't know how I get those strings.
I want to put that into an external Thread:
package Threads;
import Core.Engine;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ConsoleListenerThread implements Runnable {
Engine engine;
public ConsoleListenerThread(Engine engine) {
this.engine = engine;
}
#Override
public void run() {
String line;
while (true){
}
}
}
Update:
I really need the console output...what you see when you start a program. And how I get there is unnecessary I think (Startup etx), because I just want a String whenever the console prints a new output.
Example:
System.out.println("Hello");
And then my thread revive this string:
"hello"

If you are printing directly to the console with the System.out.println() method, then you already have the string. If , on the other hand, you are calling a different method that prints to the console from another object, try having that method return a String instead so that you can store that data.

So I solved this problem, so here is the code:
package Threads;
import Core.Engine;
import java.io.*;
public class ConsolListenerThrad implements Runnable {
Engine engine;
public ConsolListenerThrad(Engine engine) {
this.engine = engine;
}
#Override
public void run() {
String line = null;
PipedOutputStream pOut = new PipedOutputStream();
System.setOut(new PrintStream(pOut));
PipedInputStream pIn = null;
try {
pIn = new PipedInputStream(pOut);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pIn));
while (true){
try {
line = reader.readLine();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
engine.printConsollogOnGui(line);
}
}
}

Implements of thread in Android doesn't work

I'm writing a basic application in Android, the application will be connected to MySql server by quest in PHP, in Android Internet connection have to make in diffrent thread, so I create class which implements Runnable interface.
package com.company.opax.loginmysql;
import android.util.Log;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.ArrayList;
/**
* Created by opax on 30.08.2015.
*/
public class HttpPostMethod implements Runnable{
private String fileInHost;
private ArrayList<PostParameters> postParameterses;
private StringBuffer postResult;
public HttpPostMethod(String fileInHost, ArrayList<PostParameters> postParameterses){
this.fileInHost = fileInHost;
this.postParameterses = new ArrayList<PostParameters>(postParameterses);
}
public String getResult() {
return postResult.toString();
}
#Override
public void run() {
try {
String urlParameters = generateParameters();
URLConnection conn = initializeUrlConnection();
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
writer.write(urlParameters);
writer.flush();
String line;
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
postResult.append(line);
}
writer.close();
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e("Exception", this.getClass().getName() + " name: " + e.toString());
}
}
private URLConnection initializeUrlConnection() throws MalformedURLException {
URL url = new URL(fileInHost);
URLConnection conn;
try {
conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
}catch(IOException e){
throw new MalformedURLException();
}
return conn;
}
private String generateParameters(){
StringBuffer finishPostQuery = new StringBuffer();
for(PostParameters p : postParameterses){
finishPostQuery.append(p.getNameParam());
finishPostQuery.append("=");
finishPostQuery.append(p.getValueParam());
finishPostQuery.append("&");
}
if(!finishPostQuery.toString().equals("login=seba&password=pass&"))
throw new AssertionError("blad generatora zapytania: " + finishPostQuery);
return finishPostQuery.toString();
}
}
and login class:
public class Login {
private User user;
private final String paramLogin = "login";
private final String paramPass = "password";
public Login(User user){
this.user = user;
}
public boolean tryLogin(){
try{
ArrayList<PostParameters> postParameterses = new ArrayList<>();
postParameterses.add(new PostParameters(paramLogin, user.getUserName()));
postParameterses.add(new PostParameters(paramPass, user.getUserPass()));
HttpPostMethod httpPostMethod = new HttpPostMethod("http://blaba.php", postParameterses);
httpPostMethod.run();
Log.i("bla", httpPostMethod.getResult());
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.i("Exception", e.toString());
}
return false;
}
}
I'm trying to connect in other thread, but I still have an error: 'android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException'
I would be grateful for the all suggestion what I do wrong.

Instead of:
httpPostMethod.run();
do:
new Thread(httpPostMethod).start();
In case your login call failed for some reasons (timeout, wrong login), you should report that somehow to user - this is what AsyncTask class is for. It allows you to run background code in doInBackkground, and after network operation ends - in onPostExecute you can execute UI related stuff - like show errors/results.

I suggest you two things.
First use AsyncTask instead of pure java threads.
But the main advice is to use a library that make http requests.
I like to use Retrofit, it may handle all request and thread part for you, but there are others.

Cannot send data outside runnable thread

I'm having some difficulties with my app. I created a class with functions to handle HTTP POST by starting a thread, the issue is that I cannot send data outside the thread!!! The class has a variable and I want to set value to that variable when the thread is running, please help.
Here is the code:
package com.mypackage;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.json.JSONException;
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.util.Log;
public class HandleJSON {
private String urlString = null;
private int errorcode ;
public int getErrorcode(){return errorcode;}
public volatile boolean parsingComplete = true;
public HandleJSON(String url){
//saving the URL
this.urlString = url;
}
#SuppressLint("NewApi")
public void readAndParseJSON(String in) {
try {
parsingComplete = false;
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void fetchJSON(){
Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable(){
#Override
public void run() {
try {
URL url = new URL(urlString);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setReadTimeout(10000 /* milliseconds */);
conn.setConnectTimeout(15000 /* milliseconds */);
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.connect();
//receiving message from server
InputStream stream = conn.getInputStream();
String data = convertStreamToString(stream);
// JSON thing
try{
JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(data);
//THIS IS THE ISSUE, I'm setting here the errorcode which should set the superclass variable "errorcode" so I can use "getErrorCode" to retrieve the code, but it seems like the thread does not respond after thread starts;
errorcode = obj.getInt("error_code");
}
catch(JSONException e) {
Log.e("Catch error", e.toString());
}
readAndParseJSON(data);
stream.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
});
thread.start();
}
static String convertStreamToString(java.io.InputStream is) {
java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(is).useDelimiter("\\A");
return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
}
}

If I understand correctly, you want to get data between a non-main thread and elsewhere. In which case you may want to create another class that has a public static variable. This is such that everyone permitted by the modifier in question (private, protected, public) can access the same content. Be careful as, if poorly managed, your code may function differently or not all on systems with execution speeds other than yours.

In such case, an anonymous daemon thread is a little tricky.
You can define a concrete class extending Thread, define data structures in it and provide the interface to access your data structures. Such as here below.
class MyThread extends Thread {
private JSONObject obj;
public void run() {
// Your parsing code goes here
// Such as obj = xxxxxx;
}
public JSONObject getData() {
return obj;
}
}
Of course, you should consider the concurrent risks when manipulating inner data structures.

The issue solved, I used AsyncTask instead and passed the variables to onPostExecute(String) which done the trick.

How can I make this code wait until a Thread is available in the Thread Pool?

I wanted to practice a little on Network Programming and Thread Pools with Java. Here is a sample code I written:
/* User: koray#tugay.biz Date: 21/02/15 Time: 13:30 */
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class MyServer {
static List<ServerSocketThread> myThreadPool = new ArrayList<ServerSocketThread>();
static int numberOfCurrentConnections = 0;
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(8888);
ServerSocketThread threadOne = new ServerSocketThread(null);
ServerSocketThread threadTwo = new ServerSocketThread(null);
myThreadPool.add(threadOne);
myThreadPool.add(threadTwo);
while (true) {
if(numberOfCurrentConnections < 2) {
Socket accept = serverSocket.accept();
ServerSocketThread thread = myThreadPool.get(numberOfCurrentConnections);
thread.setSocket(accept);
thread.start();
numberOfCurrentConnections++;
} else {
// I want to force the client to wait until a new Thread is available from the pool.
}
}
}
public static void informFinished() {
numberOfCurrentConnections--;
}
}
and the ServerSocketThread class is as follows:
/* User: koray#tugay.biz Date: 21/02/15 Time: 18:14 */
import java.io.*;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ServerSocketThread extends Thread {
Socket socket;
public ServerSocketThread(Socket accept) {
this.socket = accept;
}
#Override
public void run() {
try {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(socket.getInputStream());
String readLine;
while (!(readLine = scanner.nextLine()).equals("bye")) {
System.out.println(readLine);
}
new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream()).write("Bye then..");
socket.close();
MyServer.informFinished();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void setSocket(Socket socket) {
this.socket = socket;
}
}
Well I can connect to my server with 2 different terminals like this just fine:
Korays-MacBook-Pro:~ koraytugay$ telnet localhost 8888
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
laylay
bombom
And the 3rd connection (if made) will not be served as there are 2 Threads only in the Thread Pool. But I can not find a way to make the 3rd client wait until a client says "bye". What I want to do is, after one of the 2 first connected clients disconnect, a Thread is allocated to the waiting 3rd Client, but how?

I will answer my own question, I made it work like this:
/* User: koray#tugay.biz Date: 21/02/15 Time: 21:12 */
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Stack;
public class MyConnectionAccepter {
private Stack<MySocketThread> mySocketThreads = new Stack<MySocketThread>();
private volatile int currentNumberOfConnections = 0;
public MyConnectionAccepter() {
MySocketThread mySocketThreadOne = new MySocketThread(this);
MySocketThread mySocketThreadTwo = new MySocketThread(this);
mySocketThreadOne.setDaemon(true);
mySocketThreadTwo.setDaemon(true);
mySocketThreadOne.start();
mySocketThreadTwo.start();
mySocketThreads.push(mySocketThreadOne);
mySocketThreads.push(mySocketThreadTwo);
}
public void start() throws IOException {
ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(8888);
while (true) {
while (currentNumberOfConnections < 2) {
System.out.println("Blocking now:");
Socket accept = serverSocket.accept();
System.out.println("Connection accepted..");
MySocketThread mySocketThread = mySocketThreads.pop();
mySocketThread.setSocket(accept);
System.out.println("Incrementing connections..");
currentNumberOfConnections++;
System.out.println("End of while..");
}
}
}
public void informIAmDone(MySocketThread mySocketThread) {
mySocketThreads.push(mySocketThread);
currentNumberOfConnections--;
}
}
and
/* User: koray#tugay.biz Date: 21/02/15 Time: 21:04 */
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class MySocketThread extends Thread {
private volatile Socket socket;
MyConnectionAccepter myConnectionAccepter;
public MySocketThread(MyConnectionAccepter myConnectionAccepter) {
this.myConnectionAccepter = myConnectionAccepter;
}
#Override
public synchronized void run() {
System.out.println("Started...");
serve();
}
public void setSocket(Socket socket) {
this.socket = socket;
System.out.println("Socket not null anymore..");
}
public void serve() {
while(socket == null) {
}
while (socket != null) {
Scanner scanner = null;
try {
scanner = new Scanner(socket.getInputStream());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String readLine;
while (!(readLine = scanner.nextLine()).equals("bye")) {
System.out.println(readLine);
}
try {
socket.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
socket = null;
myConnectionAccepter.informIAmDone(this);
}
serve();
}
}
and the Test Class:
/* User: koray#tugay.biz Date: 21/02/15 Time: 21:18 */
import java.io.IOException;
public class MyTestClass {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
MyConnectionAccepter myConnectionAccepter = new MyConnectionAccepter();
myConnectionAccepter.start();
}
}

I would suggest that you should create a threadpool as described in this article: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-concurrency/thread-pools.html
So basically in addition to the pool of threads you also maintain a queue of tasks. Each thread in the pool is continuously polling the task queue for tasks. Whenever a task is available (queue is not empty), it is picked up by a thread and executed. In your case the task would be handling the client connection. The the number of threads in the pool is limited ( 2 in this case). So at any time number of connections that can be processed simultaneously is 2. Only when one of two threads is done executing the current task will it pick the next one. Each time you receive a new connection request, you add a new task to the queue.
Hope this helps!

multithreading with non-blocking sockets

I am trying to implement a TCP Server in Java using nio.
Its simply using the Selector's select method to get the ready keys. And then processing those keys if they are acceptable, readable and so. Server is working just fine till im using a single thread. But when im trying to use more threads to process the keys, the server's response gets slowed and eventually stops responding, say after 4-5 requests.
This is all what im doing:(Pseudo)
Iterator<SelectionKey> keyIterator = selector.selectedKeys().iterator();
while (keyIterator.hasNext()) {
SelectionKey readyKey = keyIterator.next();
if (readyKey.isAcceptable()) {
//A new connection attempt, registering socket channel with selector
} else {
Worker.add( readyKey );
}
Worker is the thread class that performs Input/Output from the channel.
This is the code of my Worker class:
private static List<SelectionKey> keyPool = Collections.synchronizedList(new LinkedList());
public static void add(SelectionKey key) {
synchronized (keyPool) {
keyPool.add(key);
keyPool.notifyAll();
}
}
public void run() {
while ( true ) {
SelectionKey myKey = null;
synchronized (keyPool) {
try {
while (keyPool.isEmpty()) {
keyPool.wait();
}
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
}
myKey = keyPool.remove(0);
keyPool.notifyAll();
}
if (myKey != null && myKey.isValid() ) {
if (myKey.isReadable()) {
//Performing reading
} else if (myKey.isWritable()) {
//performing writing
myKey.cancel();
}
}
}
My basic idea is to add the key to the keyPool from which various threads can get a key, one at a time.
My BaseServer class itself is running as a thread. It is creating 10 Worker threads before the event loop to begin. I also tried to increase the priority of BaseServer thread, so that it gets more chance to accept the acceptable keys. Still, to it stops responding after approx 8 requests. Please help, were I am going wrong. Thanks in advance. :)

Third, you aren't removing anything from the selected-key set. You must do that every time around the loop, e.g. by calling keyIterator.remove() after you call next().
You need to read the NIO Tutorials.

First of all, you should not really be using wait() and notify() calls anymore since there exist good Standard Java (1.5+) wrapper classes in java.util.concurrent, such as BlockingQueue.
Second, it's suggested to do IO in the selecting thread itself, not in the worker threads. The worker threads should just queue up reads/and writes to the selector thread(s).
This page explains it pretty good and even provides working code samples of a simple TCP/IP server: http://rox-xmlrpc.sourceforge.net/niotut/
Sorry, I don't yet have time to look at your specific example.

Try using xsocket library. It saved me a lot of time reading on forums.
Download: http://xsocket.org/
Tutorial: http://xsocket.sourceforge.net/core/tutorial/V2/TutorialCore.htm
Server Code:
import org.xsocket.connection.*;
/**
*
* #author wsserver
*/
public class XServer {
protected static IServer server;
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
server = new Server(9905, new XServerHandler());
server.start();
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
}
}
protected static void shutdownServer(){
try{
server.close();
}catch(Exception ex){
System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
}
}
}
Server Handler:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.BufferUnderflowException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;
import java.util.*;
import org.xsocket.*;
import org.xsocket.connection.*;
public class XServerHandler implements IConnectHandler, IDisconnectHandler, IDataHandler {
private Set<ConnectedClients> sessions = Collections.synchronizedSet(new HashSet<ConnectedClients>());
Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
CharsetEncoder encoder = charset.newEncoder();
CharsetDecoder decoder = charset.newDecoder();
ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
#Override
public boolean onConnect(INonBlockingConnection inbc) throws IOException, BufferUnderflowException, MaxReadSizeExceededException {
try {
synchronized (sessions) {
sessions.add(new ConnectedClients(inbc, inbc.getRemoteAddress()));
}
System.out.println("onConnect"+" IP:"+inbc.getRemoteAddress().getHostAddress()+" Port:"+inbc.getRemotePort());
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("onConnect: " + ex.getMessage());
}
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onDisconnect(INonBlockingConnection inbc) throws IOException {
try {
synchronized (sessions) {
sessions.remove(inbc);
}
System.out.println("onDisconnect");
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("onDisconnect: " + ex.getMessage());
}
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onData(INonBlockingConnection inbc) throws IOException, BufferUnderflowException, ClosedChannelException, MaxReadSizeExceededException {
inbc.read(buffer);
buffer.flip();
String request = decoder.decode(buffer).toString();
System.out.println("request:"+request);
buffer.clear();
return true;
}
}
Connected Clients:
import java.net.InetAddress;
import org.xsocket.connection.INonBlockingConnection;
/**
*
* #author wsserver
*/
public class ConnectedClients {
private INonBlockingConnection inbc;
private InetAddress address;
//CONSTRUCTOR
public ConnectedClients(INonBlockingConnection inbc, InetAddress address) {
this.inbc = inbc;
this.address = address;
}
//GETERS AND SETTERS
public INonBlockingConnection getInbc() {
return inbc;
}
public void setInbc(INonBlockingConnection inbc) {
this.inbc = inbc;
}
public InetAddress getAddress() {
return address;
}
public void setAddress(InetAddress address) {
this.address = address;
}
}
Client Code:
import java.net.InetAddress;
import org.xsocket.connection.INonBlockingConnection;
import org.xsocket.connection.NonBlockingConnection;
/**
*
* #author wsserver
*/
public class XClient {
protected static INonBlockingConnection inbc;
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
inbc = new NonBlockingConnection(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"), 9905, new XClientHandler());
while(true){
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
}
}
}
Client Handler:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.BufferUnderflowException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;
import org.xsocket.MaxReadSizeExceededException;
import org.xsocket.connection.IConnectExceptionHandler;
import org.xsocket.connection.IConnectHandler;
import org.xsocket.connection.IDataHandler;
import org.xsocket.connection.IDisconnectHandler;
import org.xsocket.connection.INonBlockingConnection;
/**
*
* #author wsserver
*/
public class XClientHandler implements IConnectHandler, IDataHandler,IDisconnectHandler, IConnectExceptionHandler {
Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
CharsetEncoder encoder = charset.newEncoder();
CharsetDecoder decoder = charset.newDecoder();
ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
#Override
public boolean onConnect(INonBlockingConnection nbc) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Connected to server");
nbc.write("hello server\r\n");
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onConnectException(INonBlockingConnection nbc, IOException ioe) throws IOException {
System.out.println("On connect exception:"+ioe.getMessage());
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onDisconnect(INonBlockingConnection nbc) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Dissconected from server");
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onData(INonBlockingConnection inbc) throws IOException, BufferUnderflowException, ClosedChannelException, MaxReadSizeExceededException {
inbc.read(buffer);
buffer.flip();
String request = decoder.decode(buffer).toString();
System.out.println(request);
buffer.clear();
return true;
}
}
I spent a lot of time reading on forums about this, i hope i can help u with my code.