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    Default Sending and Receiving File

    Hi,
    Recently I have been trying to send and receive stuff over network. I have two computers and I was practicing with them. Sending a simple text was easy, but file was not easy.
    I kept trying but failed. So, I found an example on the Internet end tried to understand it.
    This is the receiver side of the code:
    import java.net.*;
    import java.io.*;
     
    public class FileClient{
      public static void main (String [] args ) throws IOException {
        int filesize=6022386; // filesize temporary hardcoded
     
        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
        int bytesRead;
        int current = 0;
        // localhost for testing
        Socket sock = new Socket("127.0.0.1",13267);
        System.out.println("Connecting...");
     
        // receive file
        byte [] mybytearray  = new byte [filesize];
        InputStream is = sock.getInputStream();
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("source-copy.pdf");
        BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
        bytesRead = is.read(mybytearray,0,mybytearray.length);
        current = bytesRead;
     
        // thanks to A. Cádiz for the bug fix
        do {
           bytesRead = is.read(mybytearray, current, (mybytearray.length-current));
           if(bytesRead >= 0) current += bytesRead;
        } while(bytesRead > -1);
     
        bos.write(mybytearray, 0 , current);
        bos.flush();
        long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
        System.out.println(end-start);
        bos.close();
        sock.close();
      }
    }

    They define int filesize=6022386; and use this as the array length, if I am not wrong. How do they know this?


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    Default Re: Sending and Receiving File

    How do they know this?
    Maybe if they are on Windows, they right-clicked on the file and asked for the file's properties.

    It's possible to use a smaller array. In the read loop, read some bytes and write them to the output file.
    You do NOT have to read all the file's bytes before writing them to a file. That is poorly written code.
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    Possibly (About being poorly written). I realized that it does not save anything into the file. So I put a sysout in every line. It gets stuck here:
    bytesRead = is.read(mybytearray,0,mybytearray.length);
    I waited for 5 minutes and the file was 1 kb.
    I think I lack knowledge about I/O. Because I do not even know how to fix this. The connecting part is very easy, but sending and receiving are not.

    So you suggest that I could read 32 bytes and write it, and do this in a loop.

    Although I felt a little lack of knowledge in myself, I'll have a try. And maybe re-read I/O topics. Thanks

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    Do your first testing using the localhost address on one PC for easier debugging. Add lots of println statements to see what the code is doing.
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    Thanks for the tips
    My procedure for testing network stuff goes like this: localhost, then my network ip, then the other computer. Never tried but assuming the right ip and port are provided, a code which is working on localhost can work on anywhere, I guess.

    Anyway, I just tried to write a method but I was clueless. So I am reading a book right now. I'll post here when I figure things out (Or if I can't).

    --- Update ---

    I managed to send files. But considering the examples I saw so far, I think although I was successful, it may not be always the case. Can you please tell me what else should I consider in this code? (Added throws Exception to simplify learning)

    import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
    import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
    import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.FileOutputStream;
    import java.net.ServerSocket;
    import java.net.Socket;
     
    public class Lol {
     
    	public void readClient() throws Exception{//Start server button	
    		ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(clientPort);		
    		Socket mySocket = serverSocket.accept();
    		BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(mySocket.getInputStream());
    		BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("D:/As.exe"));
    		int read;
    		while((read = bis.read())> -1){
    			bos.write(read);
    		}
    		bos.flush();
    		bos.close();
    		bis.close();
    	}
     
    	public void sendData() throws Exception {
    		 Socket mySocket = new Socket(serverIp, Integer.parseInt(serverPort));	 
    		 BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("D:/Default.exe"));
    		 BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(mySocket.getOutputStream());
    		 int read;
    		 while((read = bis.read())> -1){
    			 bos.write(read);
    		 }
    		 bis.close();
    		 bos.close();
     
    	}
    }

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    Default Re: Sending and Receiving File

    You could read and write more than one byte at a time using a byte array.
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    Thanks Norm! That will be my next objective. But, can you spot any potential problems with that? Because the others were so long and some of them were so complex, I thought I might be missing some cases where this code will fail.

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    Test the code and see what happens.
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    It is working flawless and it is weird for me to say, but I kinda wanted this to fail. Because comparing the examples and my code, I feel like they are testing the connection for something, but I neither see it in the code nor think anything about it.
    I have tried it with different computers of course. Wireless or cable network like it matters. I think I'll leave it as it is for now except for trying to write more than one byte at a time. Well, while I was writing this, I figured they might be testing the total bytes or something...
    Anyways, thanks.

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