Take the following basic programs:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class TestServer {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
ServerSocket listener = new ServerSocket(12345);
try {
while (true) {
Socket socket = listener.accept();
try {
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(),true);
out.println(new java.util.Date().toString());
out.close();
} finally {
socket.close();
}
}
} finally {
listener.close();
}
}
}
public class TestClient {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Socket socket = new Socket("0.0.0.0",12345); // Stack trace points to this line as the one with the error
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
System.out.println(in.readLine());
in.close();
socket.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("IOException: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
}
The TestServer program waits for a client to connect to it so that it can send information, which is, in this case, the current date, to the client. At my home computer in my IDE (JCreator, by the way), I can run both the TestServer program and the TestClient program on the same computer and get the desired result. The problem is that when I run the TestClient program on a different computer and attempt to connect to the TestServer program, I keep getting the message IOException: Connection refused.
Is there any way to get this to work?
You're trying to connect to the server with a wrong IP address (0.0.0.0).
You'll need to know the IP address of the computer running the server program and use that to instantiate the socket in your client program.
Note that the server should be reachable from the client computer.
Related
I tried to connect two machines using Socket.
I put client code in Machine A:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class MyClient {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Socket s = new Socket("IP ADDRESS",5555);
// Socket s = new Socket("localhost",6669);
DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(s.getOutputStream());
dout.writeUTF("Hello Server");
dout.flush();
dout.close();
s.close();
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
}
Run the server code in Machine B
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class MyServer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
ServerSocket ss = new ServerSocket(5555);
Socket s = ss.accept(); //establishes connection
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(s.getInputStream());
String str = (String) dis.readUTF();
System.out.println("message= " + str);
ss.close();
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
}
Both in machine in same network
But its not running and no error also coming in CMD.
First of all, when I compile the code using "localhost" as the hostname, and run the client and server apps on the same machine ... it works. The server receives the message and prints it.
From this, I conclude that the code is correct (enough) and the real problem is something to do with your networking; e.g.
It might be a routing problem.
It might be a firewall problem.
There might be something wrong with your physical network or network interfaces.
However none of these are programming problems.
Recently I have been working on PLC(programmable logic controller).As I am new to coding I am not able to create a simple connection between PLC and my device. I am using Java Socket Programming for connection but I have no idea how to connect server-side program to client-side program.I am able to create a a program that grabs analog and discrete data points from a PLC using socket. Following is the code for same:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
class PLCServer
{
public static void main(String argv[]) throws IOException
{
// IP address of the ethernet card
String ENBTIP = "192.168.10.14";
DataInputStream socketReader = null;
PrintStream socketWriter = null;
try
{
Socket client = new Socket(ENBTIP, 9100);
socketReader = new DataInputStream(client.getInputStream());
socketWriter = new PrintStream(client.getOutputStream());
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
System.out.println("Error setting up socket connection");
System.out.println("host: 192.168.10.14 port: 9100");
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error setting up socket connection: " + e);
System.out.println("host: 192.168.10.14 port: 9100");
}
// Debugging code
//System.out.println(InetAddress.getByName(ENBTIP).isReachable(10000));
}
}
Now i have to create same program for taking analog and discrete data point on the client side but I am got getting how to do it.
Can anybody please give me some guidance?
If I have a server and a client and I opened a socket between the two:
1.Is it possible that the client will have a printWriter stream, in order to write things to the socket, but the server won't have in the mean time a bufferReader?
If the answer of 1 is yes, if that client will send a message to the server (who currently doesn't have a reading stream), what will happend to this message until te server will create a reading stream and read the message?
thank you
This is not at all specific to Java, but TCP/IP. There are buffers to keep the data received, so it's not possible that some data would be lost because one end isn't "ready" yet. This is because TCP will retransmit data that hasn't been acknowledged as received, guaranteeing that all the bytes that are written are received on the other (barring obvious cases).
in addition to #Kayaman's answer:
consider this Compile-able simple Java implemented example:
Server Side:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class SimpleServer implements Runnable{
int serverPort = 45000;
ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
boolean isStopped = false;
public SimpleServer(int port){
this.serverPort = port;
}
public void run(){
try {
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(serverPort);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("Cannot listen on this port.\n" + e.getMessage());
System.exit(1);
}
while(!isStopped){
try {
Socket clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
} catch (IOException e) {
// do nothing
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
SimpleServer server = new SimpleServer(45000);
new Thread(server).start();
System.out.println("Server is waiting to connect");
}
}
Client Side:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class SimpleClient {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Socket socket = null;
PrintWriter out = null;
try {
socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 45000);
out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
System.out.println("output stream created");
out.write(9);
System.out.println("message was sent to output with no listener");
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
// do nothing
} catch (IOException e) {
// do nothing
}
}
}
the example is an implementation of a very basic client server connection in which a socket is created and a stream is defined only on the client side, followed by a write to the stream that will eventually be read by the server (if at all).
therefore, to answer you questions:
1) yes, it's possible to open a one-way connection stream without a "listener"
2) edit: according to #EJP: It will be saved within the socket's buffer until it is read or the socket is closed.
I'm new to the network communication and I'm trying to build client-server application.
protected void init(){
Server myServer = new Server();
Client myClient = new Client();
}
That's my Client class:
public class Client {
public Client() {
init();
}
private void init() {
Socket echoSocket = null;
DataOutputStream os = null;
DataInputStream is = null;
DataInputStream stdIn = new DataInputStream(System.in);
try {
echoSocket = new Socket("localhost", 1234);
os = new DataOutputStream(echoSocket.getOutputStream());
is = new DataInputStream(echoSocket.getInputStream());
os.writeInt(stdIn.readInt());
echoSocket.getOutputStream().close();
echoSocket.getInputStream().close();
echoSocket.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
And that's server:
public class Server {
public Server() {
init();
}
private void init() {
try {
boolean run = true;
ServerSocket ss = new ServerSocket(1234);
Socket s = ss.accept();
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(s.getInputStream());
System.out.println(dis.readInt());
s.getInputStream().close();
s.getOutputStream().close();
s.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
First of all:
Can I initialize client and server simply like i did? new Server() and new Client()?
Question 2:
Is it important what i initialize at first? client or server?
Question 3:
When i compile this code with client first initialized, i become Connection refused: connect. I know it means that there is no listening socket running on the port you are trying to connect to. That's why server must go first, i think. Is it so? can i fix it using setSoTimeout and how?
Question 4:
When i compile it with server and then client, output is nothing. And i think it has nothing to do with client, because if i try to print "1", for example, it doesn't work either. I think it just waits for the client and does nothing that goes after. How can i fix this? maybe setSoTimeout goes here too?
You can't have both client and server in the same thread.
As you already have observed, the server accepts the connection and tries to read something. It doesn't know that the client is running in the very same thread.
Either make a multi-threaded application, where client and server have their own thread. Or make two prgrams that run independently of each other. The latter would be also the "normal case".
Make two different projects, first run server than client.
Server will write on console "Server started" than run client it will ask your name, type your name press ok . Your name will be sent to server and server will reply saying hello to you.
Here is server code
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Server {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
ServerSocket ss= new ServerSocket(2224);
System.out.println("Serever started");
while(true)
{
Socket s=ss.accept();
InputStream is=s.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr=new InputStreamReader(is);
BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(isr);
OutputStream os=s.getOutputStream();
PrintWriter pw=new PrintWriter(os);
String name=br.readLine();
String message="Hello "+name+"from server";
pw.println(message);
pw.flush();
}
}
catch(Exception exp)
{
System.out.println("Excepttion occured");
}
}
}
Here is client code
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Client {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Socket s=new Socket("localhost",2224);
InputStream is=s.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr=new InputStreamReader(is);
BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(isr);
OutputStream os=s.getOutputStream();
PrintWriter pw=new PrintWriter(os,true);
String message = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Give your name");
pw.println(message);
pw.flush();
String servermessage = br.readLine();
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, servermessage);
s.close();
}
}
I am creating a multi client chat server and i am pretty confident that it will work (Correct me if i'm wrong), I have the issue that on the socket that the client connects to is null so the connections can't be created because i use if(Socket != null) so i don't get errors but i will explain my layout real fast. The server starts with a starter class called (LaunchServer) that uses the class object ClientConnector as Minecraft and then starts the method runServer(). Here is the code for this class:
public class LaunchServer
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("[Info] Running");
ClientConnector Minecraft = new ClientConnector();
Minecraft.runServer();
}
}
It's fairly simple. This brings us to the ClientConnector class. Here we start at the method runServer(). Right away we have a try catch block. in that block we print a message that the server is trying to connect to the port 1337. we then create a new ServerSocket called serversocket. We then send a message to the console saying that we have bound to port and that we are awaiting a connection. While true, we create a new Socket socket that equals ServerSocket.accept(); OMG fuck it. Heres the code. you know what it does...
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ClientConnector
{
public static ArrayList<Socket> Connections = new ArrayList<Socket>();
public static void runServer()
{
try
{
System.out.println("[Info] Attempting to bind to port 1337.");
#SuppressWarnings("resource")
ServerSocket serversocket = new ServerSocket(1337);
System.out.println("[Info] Bound to port 1337.");
System.out.println("[Info] Waiting for client connections...");
while(true)
{
Socket socket = serversocket.accept();
new ClientHandler(socket).start();
Connections.add(socket);
}
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
This takes us to the handler class:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class ClientHandler extends Thread
{
Socket Socket;
public ClientHandler(Socket socket)
{
socket = Socket;
System.out.println("[Info] Client connected on port 1337.");
}
public void run()
{
while(true)
{
for(int i = 0; i < ClientConnector.Connections.size(); i++)
{
try
{
if(Socket != null)//This stays null...
{
ObjectOutputStream Output = new //These can't be created...
ObjectOutputStream(Socket.getOutputStream());
ObjectInputStream Input = new ObjectInputStream(Socket.getInputStream());
whileChatting(Input, Output);
}
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
public static void sendMessage(String message, String returnedMessage, ObjectOutputStream out)
{
try
{
if(!message.isEmpty())
{
out.writeObject("\247c[Server]\247d " + message);
out.flush();
System.out.println("[Chat] Sent: " + message);
}
else
{
out.writeObject(returnedMessage);
System.out.println("[Chat] Sent: " + returnedMessage);
}
out.flush();
System.out.println("[Info] Fluching remaining data to stream.");
System.out.println("\n[Server] " + message);
}
catch(IOException ioException)
{
System.out.println("[Warning] Error: ioException # sendMessage line 76.");
}
}
public static void whileChatting(ObjectInputStream input, ObjectOutputStream output) throws IOException
{
String message = "";
do
{
try
{
message = (String) input.readObject();
System.out.println("\n" + message);
sendMessage("", message, output);
}
catch(ClassNotFoundException classNotFoundException)
{
System.out.println("[Warning] Error: ClassNotFoundException # whileChatting line 1-7.");
System.out.println("\n idk wtf that user sent!");
}
}while(!message.equals("/stop"));
}
}
Read the run method. There you will see the null problem
Would the connection get accepted then passed to the hander class? How can a null connection get accepted? My question is how can i fix this problem?
The problem is you've got a logic error due to un-recommended naming conventions. You shouldn't name variables with keywords, like your Socket variable, and each variable should have a distinguishable name. e.g. not socket1, socket2 but serverSocket, clientSocket because that will make it easier for you and anyone else to read and fix your code.
Change
Socket Socket;
to
Socket connectedSocket;
and in your constructor
socket = Socket;
to
connectedSocket = socket;
then finally, in your run() method change
if(Socket != null)
to
if(connectedSocket != null)