Java UDP Sockets And Multi-Threading
Dec 26, 2014
I have been practicing writing java code, my university course is going to cover socket programming and multi-threading.
I am presently just starting to write myself a framework for all multiplayer games I may make in the future, my aim really is simply to practice and understand better and this time, im not using an ide, just sublime text, all new grounds for me, I have a good basic understanding of the subject but I want to be fluent.
import java.net.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.io.*;
/*SMOOTH THREAD SAFE MULTI CLIENT HANDLING CLASS.
*
*This class will create connection objects when a connection is detected, these connections will run in a separate thread and update an array list in their parent class containing their last sent data
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Feb 6, 2015
Firstly, my code is just a demo of my multiplayer game (2 or more players can play simultaneously) to demonstrate my problem without any extra things. I have successfully implemented peer-to-peer (P2P) communication in my game. Later, I decided to add support for client-server communication (ie a central server which is also a player) in my game. It should be much easier than P2P. Now here is the problem:
Suppose, I have 1 server and some clients (may be 1 or more clients). They all should give the following output:
Starting...
A
B
C
E
F
...
...
Done!
They all give the above output without using multi-thread. But using multi-threading, it gives the above output only when there're 1 server and 1 client. I'm using 2 threads (1 for sending, 1 for receiving) for each Socket. That means, each client has only 2 threads for communication but the server has (2 * totalClients) threads.
I've attached my full test project. So, here I'm only showing my 2 thread classes.
ReceiveThread class:
class ReceiveThread extends Thread {
private ObjectInputStream receiveStream;
private BlockingQueue<Character> queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<Character>(Common.totalClients);
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Since I've attached my full test project, I'm not showing the other 3 classes. They are ServerMain, ClientMain and Common. If I've 2 clients to be connected, then I get the following output:
Server: (Runs first)
Starting...
A
Client 1 (clientID is 1): (Runs after the server)
Starting...
A
B
B
Client 2 (clientID is 2): (Runs after Client 1)
Starting...
A
They are stuck at there, even no exception. Actually, the server and the clients are stuck at the line try { ch = queue.take(); } if more than 1 client are connected. It seems that all are trying to receive data. But without using the dedicated threads, they all work as expected even for more than 1 client. Why is this behaviour? How to solve it? Note that I have used the same SendThread and ReceiveThread classes by which I have succcessfully implemented P2P communication.
About my attached test project file:
It has 5 small .java files for the classes as stated above. It is currently faulty when using additional threads. You have to change clientID variable for each client (they are described inside). But it works as expected without additional threads. To test it without the additional threads:
Comment " TODO" linesUncomment the single lines just after " TODO" linesComment the additional thread construction lines (4 lines)
Currently, for a workaround, I'm not using the dedicated threads for sending and receiving data only for client-server communication in my multi-player game. But I'm still using these threads for P2P communication. I don't know why it is and how to solve it.This is the attached test project file as described above.
Attached File(s) : Test Project.zip (4.11K)
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The problem is that when the second thread starts the first one is stopped this happens for all the threads, more simply when a new thread starts the old one is dead.
It seems that liken the threads uses the classes called from run() of the class RunTheGame as non multi threaded. It gives this error:
Java Code:
Exception in thread "Thread-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
at thePackage2.EClass.getWhiteRemaining(EClass.java:49)
at thePackage2.EClass.isFinal(DClass.java:84)
at thePackage2.Spiel.<init>(Cclass.java:76)
at thePackage2.RunTheGame.run(RunTheGame.java:198)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) mh_sh_highlight_all('java');
All the above refereed classes are called from the from run() of the class RunTheGame . Like i understand all the threads use those classes as non thread autonomous classes.
Java Code:
public class Aclass {
private static Thread t[];
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
for (int Game = 0; Game< 10; Game++) {
t[Game] = new Thread(new thePackage2.RunTheGame(aplayer, bplayer, Name, ID , Pmach));
t[Game].start();
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NamedConsumer consumer1 = new NamedConsumer( "One", producer );
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Producer.Java
Java Code: public class Producer implements Runnable
{
static final int MAXQUEUE = 5;
private List<String> messages = new ArrayList<String>();
public void run() {
while ( true ) {
putMessage();
try {
Thread.sleep( 1000 );
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I have been trying for days and nights , no compile error , but alot of NPEs error .......
This is my Test program
import java.util.*;
public class Test
{
public static void main (String[]args)
{
int totalShares = 0 ;
double totalCost = 0.0;
double totalProfitLoss = 0.0;
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I am expecting a output like this (Which I have error running:
Tracking of Stock : FCS
8 shares has been brought at $37.61
Total shares now 8 at total cost $300.88
33 shares has been brought at $36.31
Total shares now 41 at total cost $1499.11
17 shares has been sold at $42.67
Total shares now 24 at total cost $773.72
19 shares has been sold at $32.31
Total shares now 5 at total cost $159.83
31 shares has been brought at $33.85
Total shares now 36 at total cost $1209.18
28 shares has been brought at $36.37
Total shares now 64 at total cost $2227.54
20 shares has been brought at $35.49
Total shares now 84 at total cost $2937.34
At $36.00 per share, profit is $86.66
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**ClientMain.java**
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.Socket;
public class ClientMain
[code]....
Note that:-
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2. ServerMain.java and DirectoryRcr.java are the two classes under Server application.
3. run the ClientMain.java and ServerMain.java simultaneously
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One (smaller I think) problem i'm having is with the client code, specifically the while loop.. I've tried to code it so that when I enter a full stop ('.') the program will stop asking me for more numbers and move on to sending them to the server.. but instead it just crashes giving an error.. heres an example
"Enter a number: 1
Enter a number: 3
Enter a number: 2
Enter a number: 1.
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1."
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Num berFormatException.java:65)
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Here's the client code in full
package numberSortprogram;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
public class NumSortClient {
public static void main(String[] args) {
InputStreamReader is = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
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The big problem that I have is figuring out how to send the sorted array back to the client..
So, what im trying to get to happen is-
-Client is asked to enter numbers
-Client enters series of numbers into an array
-Array is converted to a string and sent to the server
-String is then split into an array of strings and sorted using compareTo (don't know if this is the best way?)
-Sorted array is sent back to client and displayed.
fyi this is making use of streamsockets..
All of the rest of my code is below:
package numberSortprogram;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
public class NumSortServer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int serverPort = 4444; // default port
if (args.length == 1 )
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server:
public class Server {
private static ServerSocket server;
private static Socket connection;
private static PrintWriter pw;
private static BufferedReader br;
private static JTextField textOutput;
[Code] ....
so, everything is working fine . There is only one thing i would like to do now: make it so that i can run the server from my computer and then others can run the client from theirs and we will be able to chat . So I tried:
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So I changed "localhost",7777 to "myip",7777)
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I don't think this is true unless you're using the mouseEntered() or mouseExited() method. But again, I'm not sure.
I think this is true, I don't know what else could have listeners.
They're only worth a few marks each so the answer is only suppose to be a line or two. They are all true or false questions that require an explanation.
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at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.componentShown(AWTEventMulticaster.java:162)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.componentShown(AWTEventMulticaster.java:162)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.componentShown(AWTEventMulticaster.java:162)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.componentShown(AWTEventMulticaster.java:162)
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at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.componentShown(AWTEventMulticaster.java:162)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.componentShown(AWTEventMulticaster.java:162)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.componentShown(AWTEventMulticaster.java:162)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.componentShown(AWTEventMulticaster.java:162)
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a)
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b)
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I have written following code.
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