Thread: Sending object through socket

Hello!

My code is misbehaving and I can't see where the fault is, but I'm almost sure that it's a beginner's mistake. I'm sending objects through a socket in a while loop. The object has 4 fields: first three are double[] arrays and the last one is a Timestamp. The objects are being received also in a loop.

On the server side, before sending the object I print its fields and they are ok (the data in the object's fields changes at each iteration) but when I receive the object on the client side it has the same values in the three double[] fields as the first object that was sent (the first object was correctly received). The strange thing is that the Timestamp field is correct for all the received objects.

Here's the relevant code:

public class Server extends Thread{
 
        ServerSocket ss=null;
	Socket socket=null;
	String line="";
	Measurements mes = new Measurements();
 
 
public void run(){
	try{
 
		ss = new ServerSocket(1905); 
		socket = ss.accept(); 
 
		BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
		ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream((socket.getOutputStream()));
 
		double x[] = new double[6];
		double u[] = new double[6];
		double v[] = new double[6];
 
		line = in.readLine();
 
		while ((!line.equals("STOP")) && (line.equals("Get Measurements"))){			
 
			for (int i=0;i<6;i++){
 
				synchronized (Simulator.lakes[i]){
				v[i]=Simulator.lakes[i].getInFlow();
				u[i]=Simulator.lakes[i].getOutFlow();
				x[i]=Simulator.lakes[i].getLevel();}
			}
 
			mes=new Measurements();
			mes.setX(x);
			mes.setU(u);
			mes.setV(v);
 
			Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
			java.util.Date now = calendar.getTime();
			java.sql.Timestamp currentTimestamp = new java.sql.Timestamp(now.getTime());
			mes.setDate(currentTimestamp);
 
			System.out.println("In server:  x[1]="+ mes.getX()[1]+"  u[1]="+mes.getU()[1]+"  v[1]="+mes.getV()[1]+"date= "+mes.getDate());
 
			out.writeObject(mes);
 
			sleep(1000);
			out.flush();
			line = in.readLine();
		}
 
	}catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
}
}

In the client class:

public Measurements getMeasurements(){
 
 
		out.println("Get Measurements");
 
		try {
 
			m=(Measurements) in.readObject();
 
			System.out.println("In client:  x[1]="+ m.getX()[1]+"  u[1]="+m.getU()[1]+"  v[1]="+m.getV()[1]+" date= "+m.getDate());
 
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return m;
	}

The output is:

In server: x[1]=77.3336 u[1]=0.7897 v[1]=0.5128 date= 2010-11-15 08:26:57.681
In server: x[1]=32.5530 u[1]=0.6430 v[1]=0.9706 date= 2010-11-15 08:26:58.768
In server: x[1]=46.0680 u[1]=0.3521 v[1]=0.7266 date= 2010-11-15 08:26:59.774
In server: x[1]=49.1065 u[1]=0.1337 v[1]=0.3319 date= 2010-11-15 08:27:00.775
...

In client: x[1]=77.3336 u[1]=0.7897 v[1]=0.5128 date= 2010-11-15 08:26:57.681
In client: x[1]=77.3336 u[1]=0.7897 v[1]=0.5128 date= 2010-11-15 08:26:58.768
In client: x[1]=77.3336 u[1]=0.7897 v[1]=0.5128 date= 2010-11-15 08:26:59.774
In client: x[1]=77.3336 u[1]=0.7897 v[1]=0.5128 date= 2010-11-15 08:27:00.775
...


Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks,
Alexandra

I don't see a problem with the above code that would result in the output you are getting. That being said, I could make an educated guess that the values you are trying to access in measurements are static.

Unfortunately it's not the case. I've tried to send an array, randomly generated and the same thing happens, but when I send a String it's working fine.

Can you post a bit more code, for example the Measurements class and how the client is actually calling getMeasurements?

I solved the problem with an out.reset(); in the server, after the object in (ObjectOutputStream) out was sent through the socket. I found an explanation for the problem here[<- link]. Anyway, thanks copeg for trying to help!