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Thread: I/O question..

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    Arrow I/O question..

    hello folks.

    Small question, pain in my ass.

    Anyway, the reason i've asked this question is due to this sample code,

    Client sided:
    			output.write(packet.getId());
    			output.write((packet.getBuffer().length >>> 24) & 0xFF);
    			output.write((packet.getBuffer().length >>> 16) & 0xFF);
    			output.write((packet.getBuffer().length >>> 8) & 0xFF);
    			output.write((packet.getBuffer().length >>> 0) & 0xFF);
    			output.write(packet.getBuffer());

    Packet, is a wrapper i use to help me construct packets,

    public Packet(int id, byte[] buffer);

    Well, to make sure im writing the correct byte, i check the length, within the method.
    System.out.println(packet.getBuffer().length);

    Now an example client code:
    System.out.println(input.availible());

    Now' ill get significantly smaller numbers in comparison..

    The server will write a byte array of 160291 bytes(Confirmed by outprint), and the clien will read somthing like 17391 as avail,

    *Other notes,

    After I call the reading off all the avail bytes, the input fills up with another byte array with another substansilly small amount of the buffer size, eventually all the incoming byte array's lengths add up to the amount of bytes I sent in the first place,

    This means:

    **I can work around this small pain, but Im just curious why the input stream isn't being filled with in the 160291 byte's in the first read.

    The above is where my question lyes,

    All possible answers welcomed!
    Last edited by Time; November 3rd, 2010 at 08:07 PM.


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    Default Re: I/O question..

    Is there a limit to the amount of byte's the InputStream of a socket, can be filled up to at a current moment?

    I assumed the max was Integer.MAX_AMOUNT,

    Hmmm

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    Default Re: I/O question..

    I'm confused about what's the client and what's the server...is the first snipped of code meant to be the server? Anyway, perhaps I misunderstand a little but since you write the id and the packet length to the output stream, then anything reading that stream will end up reading more bytes than the total bytes in the packets cumulative (eg (length and id) * packet cumulative)

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    Default Re: I/O question..

    First is the server, but either way it shouldnt matter right?, InputStream is still an InputStream,

    and me writing the id, and the length, shouldn't matter, it's not incorporated to the initial reading:
    byte[] data = new byte[input.available()];
    System.out.println(input.read(data));

    Shouldn't the incoming byte's equal to the bytes sent out?, hence my question on the incoming limit if any

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    Default Re: I/O question..

    Hmm, Im thinking has somthing to do with network, rather then inputStream itself, let me do some tests.