input and output readers

[david russell]

hey,
does anyone know of a way to break an input stream into chunks, other than to read the stream into a buffer and seach it character by character for delimiters??
ideally i want to be able to read a line of data from a servlet, break the line into its component parts (3 record fields) and then pass this data to a record store, creating a record for each line of data. unfortunately it looks like i will have to read data a character at a time, which will be very slow.
if anyone has any experience or thoughts i would be grateful
cheers
dave
[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: david russell ]

[Valentin Crettaz]

If you have control over what the servlet sends to your device then you could at least use DataOutputStream.writeUTF() (on the servlet-side) and DataInputStream.readUTF() (on the device-side) so that you can read one line at a time. But if you don't have that control, I don't see how it could be done otherwise.
Here is an interesting tech-tip about communication between servlets and devices which shows the concept:CLIENT-SERVER COMMUNICATION OVER HTTP USING MIDP AND SERVLETS
[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: Valentin Crettaz ]

[david russell]

dear all,
has anyone tried to implement the client server example that was given in the previous thread?? i keep getting uncaught out of memory exceptions.
basically if i implement the code as it is i get the exception, so i changed the client code from:
int n = din.readInt();
while(n-- > 0){
text.append(din.readUTF() );
text.append( '\n' );
to this:
int n = 10
while(n-- > 0){
text.append(din.readUTF() );
text.append( '\n' );
now it processes the request, but the screen is blank (ie showing no response). however, if you remove the UTF encoding and just read(), the response comes up, albeit just a bunch of numbers. im a bit bamboozled, if anyone can help that would be great!!
dave

[Eric Giguere]

The example in the Tech Tip works, I know, I wrote it. The initial readInt in the client is important because it tells the client how many strings it should read.

[david russell]

sorry folks, i found the problem. my servlet was returning a crazy value for the number of records, thats why it was causing an exception. its sorted now and working fine.
cheers
dave