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Vishal S
Vishal S

Reputation: 73

Datagram receive method blocked due to timeout

I am working on a client-server project that sends/receives using UDP socket which handles packet drop and timeouts. Since the receive method is blocked every time the packet is lost (if timeout occurs), i need to find a way to kill the thread where the receive socket is blocked. The problem is, it is not throwing any exception so have no idea how to kill the thread.I want to terminate the thread so that i can restart again the next attempt.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 132

Answers (1)

user207421
user207421

Reputation: 310893

need a way to kill the thread

No you don't.

You need a way to detect the timeout.

Set a read timeout, with setSoTimeout(), and catch SocketTimeoutException when it triggers.

Upvotes: 1

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