Re: reading bytes from bytebuffer?

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:35:42 -0700
Message-ID:
<47d7336d$0$27804$b9f67a60@news.newsdemon.com>
nooneinparticular314159@yahoo.com wrote:

I'm reading some bytes sent over the network from a bytebuffer that
I'm using with Java.NIO. The last time I tried this, I was reading
text data, so I created a charbuffer view of the bytebuffer and
appended to a string until my string was long enough to contain the
data that I wanted to manipulate. This time, I want to get bytes out,
and I'm being sent bytes. Great! Except what I can't figure out is
how to tell if enough bytes have arrived yet.

ie. Let's say that I really want 100 bytes of data. Until 100 bytes
arrive, I can't do anything useful with the data. How can I test to
see if 100 new bytes are currently available for reading in the
bytebuffer? What happens if, say, only 60 bytes have arrived? Is
there a way to test the length of the newly arrived bytes and not read
from the buffer until 100 show up?

Thanks!


Create your buffer the size you need to read and call
SocketChannel.read() until the hasRemaining() of the buffer is 0.

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