I'm right now implementing the DNS-DS library "mdnsjava" into my Android-project as it's mentioned at several positions, for example here at SO:
Are there any other Java libraries for bonjour/zeroconf apart from JMDNS?.
While implementing, I wonder if this implementation is really using any cache and/or how stable it might perform.
Right now I'm using jmDNS for the last 2 years but this library wasn't able to keep the cache while pausing the discovery (app in background).
Additionally, jmDNS was slow & unstable with discovering the devices.
So, has anyone any experience with mdnsjava?
Meanwhile I can say, that mdnsjava is working very very good and stable in most situations. Much better & faster compared to jMDNS.
Here's some code to restart the full discovery and to start/stop the discovery, maybe it helps someone:
MulticastDNSService mDNSService = null;
Browse browse = null;
Object serviceDiscoveryInstance = null;
public void stop() {
try {
if (serviceDiscoveryInstance != null && mDNSService != null) {
mDNSService.stopServiceDiscovery(serviceDiscoveryInstance);
mDNSService.close();
}
serviceDiscoveryInstance = null;
//mDNSService = null;
if (browse != null) {
browse.close();
// this is required, otherwise the listeners won't get called in next run
browse = null;
}
Querier querier = MulticastDNSLookupBase.getDefaultQuerier();
if (querier != null) {
querier.close();
}
MulticastDNSLookupBase.setDefaultQuerier(null);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log(..)
}
}
public void start() {
try {
Querier querier = MulticastDNSLookupBase.getDefaultQuerier();
if (querier != null) {
if (mDNSService == null) {
mDNSService = new MulticastDNSService();
}
if (browse == null) {
browse = new Browse(SERVICE_TYPE);
}
if (serviceDiscoveryInstance == null) {
serviceDiscoveryInstance = mDNSService.startServiceDiscovery(browse, this);
}
// add existing entries
Lookup resolve = new Lookup(SERVICE_TYPE);
resolve.setQuerier(mDNSService.getQuerier());
ServiceInstance[] services = resolve.lookupServices();
for (ServiceInstance service : services) {
addDevice(service);
}
resolve.close();
} else {
Log.e("Cannot start mDNS-discovery because querier is not set up!");
resetDiscovery();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Error while discovering network.", e);
resetDiscovery();
}
}
public void clearCaches() {
if (MulticastDNSCache.DEFAULT_MDNS_CACHE != null) {
MulticastDNSCache.DEFAULT_MDNS_CACHE.clearCache();
}
mDNSService = null;
browse = null;
}
private void resetDiscovery(){
stop();
mDNSService = null;
browse = null;
}
You can start/stop the discovery with the mentioned methods, and reset the whole discovery via
stop();
clearCaches();
start();