Re: Writing an int to a socket
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:48:15 +0100, Mark wrote:
Hi,
I have the following code which I want to write a 32 bit integer to a
socket (Network byte ordering). For example:
int value = 11;
ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(4);
buf.order(ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN);
buf.putInt(value);
buf.flip();
_channel.write(buf);
(_channel is a SocketChannel)
However the receiver does not see the correct data. It receives (hex) :
30 31 30 2C
Can anyone tell me how to correct this? TIA.
Java IO is in network byte order by default. You only need to worry about
endian issues when reading/writing little endian data.
Personally, I would use a Socket, get its output stream and wrap it in a
DataOutputStream then use the DataOutputStream.writeInt(int) method. Do
you have some underlying reason for using ByteBuffer and nio?
But, that apart, I can't actually see anything wrong with the above code.
Perhaps the problem lies in the code you are not showing us, including
the code which claims to read this data.
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