Client-server socket communication

Question

Problem

How to send UTF-8 data between the server and the client, if I can use on client only

inputStream.read()

?

Docs

Reads a single byte from this stream and returns it as an integer in the range from 0 to 255. Returns -1 if the end of the stream has been reached.

Without reader.readLine() and any another. (With reader I cant see end of stream)

Help please!

(full code:)

int c;
String str = new String();
while ((c = inputStream.read( )) != -1)
{
    char ch = (char)c;
    if(ch == '\n')
    {
        Log.v("", str);
        final String data = str;

        runOnUiThread(new Runnable()
        {
            @Override
            public void run()
            {
                String put[] = data.split("#");
                try
                {
                    //cmd parsing
                }
                catch(Exception e)
                {
                    //stop connection
                }
            }
        });
        str = "";
    }else{
        str += Character.toString(ch);
    }
}
//Communication error

Help please

Answer 1

You might want to take a look at this previous post. There's a couple of good options on there. The read() method can be overloaded with different parameters, so you can read one byte, or n bytes. Check out the full documentation here . Basically, you'll have to read in the raw bytes, then convert them to ASCII characters. Also, I'm curious as to why you can't use BufferedReader or an equivalent class?