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Demonic218
Demonic218

Reputation: 923

How to stop a BufferedReader after a certain amount of time in Android

I've got a thread that opens a socket that sends data to a server. The server may send data back depending if someone is at the work station. However I'm trying to put a timeout on the BufferedReader so that after 30 seconds it continues saying the response was null.

//Receive Response
bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
response = new StringBuilder();
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null ) {
    response.append(line);
}

This is my BufferedReader, pretty standard, I've looked at a bunch of timers and other posts but haven't found a working solution.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1727

Answers (1)

earthw0rmjim
earthw0rmjim

Reputation: 19427

You could call setSoTimeout() on your socket instance.

Itt will raise a SocketTimeoutException when the timeout is reached. Wrap your reading logic in a try-catch block, catch that exception and handle it as you wish.

Something like this:

try {
    socket.setSoTimeout(30000);

    bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
    while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null ) {
        response.append(line);
    }
} catch (SocketTimeoutException ste) {
    // timeout reached
} catch (Exception e) {
    // something else happened
} finally {
    // some general processing
}

Upvotes: 3

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