com.appenginefan.toolkit.common
Class ClientSocketSubstitute

java.lang.Object
  com.appenginefan.toolkit.common.ClientSocketSubstitute

public class ClientSocketSubstitute
extends Object

A client-side subsitute for the common pattern of the blocking while(true) readline(); pattern

Constructor Summary

ClientSocketSubstitute(URL url, int silencePeriodInMillis, int maxMessages)
Constructor.

Method Summary

void	close() Closes the fake socket
void	println(String snippet) Sends a snippet of data to the server.
String	readLine() Gets the next line from the server.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ClientSocketSubstitute

public ClientSocketSubstitute(URL url,
                              int silencePeriodInMillis,
                              int maxMessages)

Constructor. Uses a simple environment implementation that opens the socket in a new thread and uses URL.openStream() to connect to the WebSocket

Parameters:

url - the URL to connect to

silencePeriodInMillis - the time the thread should wait between each http call

maxMessages - the maximum amount of messages that should be transported in one http request

Method Detail

readLine

public String readLine()

Gets the next line from the server. If nothing is received for 60 seconds, returns null.

Returns:

println

public void println(String snippet)

Sends a snippet of data to the server.

close

public void close()

Closes the fake socket