Multi Client/Server Chat Question

[Kodak07]

I am making a chat client/server app. When i run the program only the client that sent the message is getting it back from the server. I think it is sitting on the userInput line waiting for keyboard input, how do i make it continue to loop?


Thanks and i hope i put this in the right forum code(server and Client) is below

Client Code

/*
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 */


/**
 *
 * @author bcoates
 */
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class chatClient {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
	Socket echoSocket=null;
	PrintWriter out=null;
	BufferedReader in = null;
        // TODO code application logic here
        try
        {
            echoSocket = new Socket ("localhost", 8888);
	    out = new PrintWriter(echoSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(echoSocket.getInputStream()));
            
        }
        catch(UnknownHostException e)
        {
            System.out.println("Dont know about that host");
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            System.out.println("something blew up:"+e);
        }
        BufferedReader stdIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String userInput=null;
	String serverOut=null;
        
        while(true)
        {
            
		try
		{
                    userInput=stdIn.readLine();
                                                
                }
	    catch(IOException e)
		{
			System.out.println("something blew up" +e);
	        System.exit(1);
		}
            
            if(userInput!=null)
                          out.println(userInput); 
            try
            {
                serverOut = in.readLine();
                
                
                
            }
            catch(IOException e)
		{
			System.out.println("something blew up" +e);
	        System.exit(1);
		}
            if(serverOut!=null)
                          System.out.println(serverOut);
            
        }
      }

}

Server Code

/**
 *
 * @author bcoates
 */
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*; 
public class multiServer 
{
    
      // HashSet<PrintWriter> writers = new HashSet<PrintWriter>();
      static protected List<PrintWriter> writers = new ArrayList<PrintWriter>();
   
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {  
        int i=1;
       try
       {
                 ServerSocket servsock = new ServerSocket(8888, 5);
		 Socket incoming;
                 System.out.println("The chat server is running.");
                 

		while(true)
		   {
			 incoming = servsock.accept();
			 multiServerThread connection = new multiServerThread(incoming);
                         Thread t = new Thread(connection);
			 
                         t.start();
                         
                   }
                 
       } 
       catch(IOException e)
        {
            System.out.println("couldnt make socket");
        }
        
        
    }

}


class multiServerThread implements Runnable
{
    Socket incoming;
    PrintWriter out=null;
    PrintWriter broad=null;
    BufferedReader in = null;
    String cliString=null;
    int id;
    
    multiServerThread(Socket incoming)
    {	
        this.incoming=incoming;
        //this.id=id;         
    }
    
    public void run()
    {
        
        try
        {
           out = new PrintWriter(incoming.getOutputStream(), true);
           //multiServer.writers.add(out);
           System.out.println("Number of Clients: " +multiServer.writers.size());
            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(incoming.getInputStream()));
            multiServer.writers.add(out);
            while(true)
            {
               try
               {
                   cliString = in.readLine();
                   
                   if(cliString !=null)
                   {
                       System.out.println("Got message: "+cliString);
                       for (int i=0; i<multiServer.writers.size();i++) 
                     {
                        broad=multiServer.writers.get(i);
                        broad.println(cliString);
                        
                     }
 
                       //out.println(cliString);
                   }
                       
                  
               } 
               catch (IOException e)
               {
                   System.out.println("yup it blew up here"+e);
               }
            }
        } catch(IOException e)
        {
            System.out.print("boom goes the dynamite"+ e);
        }
        
    }


}

[Norm]

how do i make it continue to loop?

Is the "it" the client code? If you want to code to do two things at the same time, you'll need to have the things running on different threads.

Comment on your code:
put printStackTrace() calls in your catch blocks so you'll know why and where the exception occured

[Kodak07]

I got it working by creating separate threads for the keyboard input and one listening for the server input.

[eko1892]

Hi, i've tried your sytax's their working fine but i was wondering if there is any chance to tell me how did you do the loop thing and second keyboard entry from server. Please reply to me a.s.a.p Thanks in advance.