Reading XML from a Socket (WrappedInputStream)

[Ahmad Morad <mo...@db.informatik.uni-kassel.de>]

In my code i read XML Data from the InputStream of a socket. But in some
cases, i read also standard text data from the socket. So i need a method, 
which reads the complete message from the stream and returns the result as 
a string. I use the following code in my application:

    public synchronized String read() 
	throws TclDBEmptyServerMessageException 
    {
	// theInput is theSocket.getInputStream();
	WrappedInputStream wf =	new WrappedInputStream(theInput);
	byte[] fBuffer = new byte[2048]; // restrictet from theInput Stream!
	String s= null;
	localBuffer.delete(0,localBuffer.length());
	try {
	    int count;
	    int length = fBuffer.length;
	    int testC = 1;
	    while ((count = wf.read(fBuffer,0, length)) > 0) {
		s = new String(fBuffer,0,count);
		System.out.println("Buffer Nr. " + testC + ": " + s);//_debug
		localBuffer.append(s);
		testC++;
	    }
	    wf.close();
	}
	catch (InterruptedIOException e) {}	
	catch (IOException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	}
	String message = new String(localBuffer);
	return message;
    }
    
But this "cut" some bytes of the data. So I tried to test the procedure with 
a plain file, and it works currectly!!. By comparing the outputs of both codes
i found that the read method by the socket code reads less than 2048. 
Counting the difference i became 63 bytes less than 2048 (could be 64!). I 
can't fix the problem. Anybody have an Idea about a possible reason for the 
bug!. 

##
Here some output (examples sending the XSL-File to the Client):

1. The socket code:

fPacketCount : (was 0) 7779
packet Count : 7779,length : 2048
readed data (value of count): 2048   // after calling super.in.read()
rest of packet= : 5731               // 7779 - 2048
Buffer Nr. 1: <?xml version="1.0"?>  // some data (should be 2048 bytes) 
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
....

end of data is : 

<xsl:when test="@state='empty'">
  <xsl:attribute name="align">
     <xsl

2. The same output I got from the test with a plain file but in the buffer    
   i got more data:

...
end of data
<xsl:when test="@state='empty'">
    <xsl:attribute name="align">
        <xsl:text>center</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute> 
    <xs
##

The diffrence is exactly the text:
text>center</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute> 
    <xs
which counts 63 bytes (64!). I have really no Idea about the reason!!

(Note1): the code in the socket example reads the second time at the correct 
point, tell the end of the file! Here became I the strange fPacketCount of 
29548. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Note2) The Input is produced with Tcl. for writing the packetcount i use 
the "binary format S [string length $message]". which produce a 2-Byte Integer
in big-endian byte order. 

Re: Reading XML from a Socket (WrappedInputStream)

[Andy Clark <an...@apache.org>]

Ahmad Morad wrote:
> In my code i read XML Data from the InputStream of a socket. But 
> in some cases, i read also standard text data from the socket. So 
> i need a method, which reads the complete message from the stream 
> and returns the result as a string. I use the following code in 
> my application:

You don't have enough code in your post for me to accurately
deduce your problem. However, there are a few things I can
suggest.

First, are you calling the WrappedOutputStream#close method
on the output? Also, perhaps the following code should be
changed from this:

      while ((count = wf.read(fBuffer,0, length)) > 0)

to this:

      while ((count = wf.read(fBuffer,0, length)) != -1)

Lastly, perhaps there's a bug in my sample code. Although,
I didn't see problems like this before.

-- 
Andy Clark * IBM, TRL - Japan * andyc@apache.org