so I'm doing a program in Java that sends and receives data with the help of DatagramSocket and DatagramPacket. The problem is that somewhere between when i'm sending the data/receiving it - the data turns up to be different in the program i'm sending it too, but only in certain cases like this:
Sending: 378 Receiving: 3786
Sending: 374 Receiving: 3742
Sending: 360 Receiving: 3604
But works sometimes, in cases like:
Sending: 376 Receiving: 376
Sending: 372 Receiving: 372
Sending: 344 Receiving: 344
I'm sending two coordinates, to first convert it to a string with:
String message = Integer.toString(coord1) + " " + Integer.toString(coord2);
Then converting the string to a byte array to be able to send it with a DatagramPacket:
byte[] b = message.getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(b, b.length, remoteHost, remotePort);
try {
datagramSocket.send(packet);
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
This is my thread that receives the data:
private DatagramSocket dSocket;
private DatagramPacket packet;
private byte[] buffer;
private PaintProgram prog;
public ReceiverThread(int myPort, PaintProgram prog) {
this.prog = prog;
try {
buffer = new byte[256];
dSocket = new DatagramSocket(myPort);
packet = new DatagramPacket(buffer, buffer.length);
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
this.start();
}
@Override
public void run(){
do{
try {
dSocket.receive(packet);
String data = new String(buffer, "UTF-8");
prog.handlePacket(data);
} catch(IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
while(!this.currentThread().isInterrupted());
}
And this is my method that "handles" the packet that's received:
String[] xy = data.split(" ");
Point point = new Point(Integer.parseInt(xy[0].trim()), Integer.parseInt(xy[1].trim()));
Then i add the point created with the two coordinates to my program. I don't know where in this process it goes wrong. Would be cool with some new perspective! Thanks.
String data = new String(buffer, "UTF-8");
This should be
String data = new String(packet.getData(), packet.getOffset(), packet.getLength(), "UTF-8");