How to detect a remote side socket close? [duplicate]
The isConnected
method won't help, it will return true
even if the remote side has closed the socket. Try this:
public class MyServer { public static final int PORT = 12345; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException { ServerSocket ss = ServerSocketFactory.getDefault().createServerSocket(PORT); Socket s = ss.accept(); Thread.sleep(5000); ss.close(); s.close(); }}public class MyClient { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException { Socket s = SocketFactory.getDefault().createSocket("localhost", MyServer.PORT); System.out.println(" connected: " + s.isConnected()); Thread.sleep(10000); System.out.println(" connected: " + s.isConnected()); }}
Start the server, start the client. You'll see that it prints "connected: true" twice, even though the socket is closed the second time.
The only way to really find out is by reading (you'll get -1 as return value) or writing (an IOException
(broken pipe) will be thrown) on the associated Input/OutputStreams.
Since the answers deviate I decided to test this and post the result - including the test example.
The server here just writes data to a client and does not expect any input.
The server:
ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(4444);Socket clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(clientSocket.getOutputStream(), true);while (true) { out.println("output"); if (out.checkError()) System.out.println("ERROR writing data to socket !!!"); System.out.println(clientSocket.isConnected()); System.out.println(clientSocket.getInputStream().read()); // thread sleep ... // break condition , close sockets and the like ...}
- clientSocket.isConnected() returns always true once the client connects (and even after the disconnect) weird !!
- getInputStream().read()
- makes the thread wait for input as long as the client is connected and therefore makes your program not do anything - except if you get some input
- returns -1 if the client disconnected
- out.checkError() is true as soon as the client is disconnected so I recommend this
You can also check for socket output stream error while writing to client socket.
out.println(output);if(out.checkError()){ throw new Exception("Error transmitting data.");}