com.msi.network.connection
Class clientTCPConnection

java.lang.Object
  com.msi.network.connection.clientTCPConnection

All Implemented Interfaces:

clientConnection

public class clientTCPConnection

extends java.lang.Object

implements clientConnection

Describe class clientTCPConnection here.

Version:

1.0

Author:

thompson@milestonesolutions.com

Field Summary

private java.net.Socket	_cSock
private java.io.InputStream	_in
private java.io.OutputStream	_out
(package private) java.net.InetAddress	destination
(package private) int	port

Constructor Summary

clientTCPConnection(java.net.InetAddress dst, int port)
Opens a connection to the specified system and port combination.

Method Summary

void	close() Close out the connection to the server and free any system resources.
protected void	finalize() Make sure we close the connection if anything bad happens.
java.lang.String	getLine() Gets a line of output from the TCP/IP server.
int	getServerPort() Return the server port associated with this connection.
void	putLine(java.lang.String line) Send a line to the server.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

destination

java.net.InetAddress destination

port

int port

_cSock

private java.net.Socket _cSock

_in

private java.io.InputStream _in

_out

private java.io.OutputStream _out

Constructor Detail

clientTCPConnection

public clientTCPConnection(java.net.InetAddress dst,
                           int port)
                    throws java.lang.Exception

Opens a connection to the specified system and port combination.

Parameters:

dst - an InetAddress value

port - an int value

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if an error occurs

Method Detail

getLine

public java.lang.String getLine()
                         throws java.lang.Exception

Gets a line of output from the TCP/IP server.

Sometimes it is possible to 'outrun' the remote server or the intervening network. A brief delay is provided to overcome this temporary and often initial, buffer-empty condition.

Specified by:

getLine in interface clientConnection

Returns:

text from the server with end of line characters stripped.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if an error occurs

putLine

public void putLine(java.lang.String line)

Send a line to the server.

Specified by:

putLine in interface clientConnection

Parameters:

line - to send.

close

public void close()

Close out the connection to the server and free any system resources.

Specified by:

close in interface clientConnection

finalize

protected void finalize()
                 throws java.lang.Throwable

Make sure we close the connection if anything bad happens. The application programmer should close the connection after use.

Throws:

java.lang.Throwable - if an error occurs

getServerPort

public int getServerPort()

Return the server port associated with this connection.

Specified by:

getServerPort in interface clientConnection

Returns:

the port for this connection.