how does the getOutputStream() of Socket work? - java

{ Socket s = new Socket("xxx.xx.xx.xx",10004);
BufferedReader bufr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream(),true);
BufferedReader bufIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()));
String line = null;
while((line=bufr.readLine())!=null){
if("over".equals(line))
break;
out.println(line);
String upperStr = bufIn.readLine();
System.out.println(upperStr);
}
s.close();}
so does the out.println(line); mean 1. the string which was entered will appear on the screen and 2.the content will be sent to the server socket at the same time? Thanks, guys.

Your variable out is a PrintWriter, but that doesn't mean that its something that will be printed on the screen. In this case, you gave it something that is the output stream of a socket, so it will print a line to the socket. If you want it to appear on the screen as well, you'll have to call something like System.out.println(line) as well.

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I'm trying to learn socket programming in Java but unfortunately I'm running into some behaviour that I don't understand. I have a very simple client program that connect to a server socket and sends some text that gets echoed back. Said client program looks like this:
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When I run this program the first line that I enter gets sent to the server but after that I can enter as many lines as I want and nothing gets sent. I also never see anything printed out by the System.out.println() line.
But if I switch out the OutputStreamWriter for a PrintWriter everything works as it should! Here's the code with PrintWriter:
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userInput = stdIn.readLine();
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Note that the difference between write() and println() is that println() adds a linebreak after the data while write() does not.
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I am working on a simple programm for a university course. Here is the code that I have problems with:
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I also have a thread for accepting incoming connections and some other stuff that is irrelevant. The problem that I have is that I can read one message and after that nothing happens. I guess the readLine() method is the problem but I am not really sure how to solve it.
It even says in our assignment to use
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I'm trying to make a chat application between a server and clients which are seperate classes. I'm not copying the whole code, but this is the part I'm not sure is set up correctly:
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Are my data streams set up correctly or is there probably an error in my code somewhere else? I'm not sure how to check in the debugger if the streams are connected correctly.
[Quoting my comment above:]
There is nothing here that [reads or] writes lines.
That remains true. All you have is:
out.write("#W|Welcome");
etc.
don't forget to call newLine() as necessary
You forgot.

Java TCP socket blocks at readLine

I'm working on a TCP client/server application and face the issue that the client is always blocking at br.readLine(). I tried to add a \n, but it did not solve the problem. Also a char array is blocking, when I only use read instead of readLine.
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The client writes one line, and then tries to read one.
The server reads multiple lines until it either gets an empty line, or the end-of-stream. Then it writes a line.
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the client won't send an empty line (unless it read one from standard input),
the client won't close the stream ... until it gets the response from the server.
Hence the client is waiting for the server and the server is waiting for the client. Deadlock.
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println(send);
to this
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However, the one problem here is that your "protocol" does not cope with the case wants to send an empty line as data. That is because you are implicitly using an empty line (from the client) to mean "message completed".

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