[jdom-interest] reading xml from a socket

bob mcwhirter bob at werken.com
Tue May 15 08:23:12 PDT 2001


Or, if you're architecting both ends of this protocol, maybe MIME
could help you out..

	-bob

On Tue, 15 May 2001 philip.nelson at omniresources.com wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that the inputstream must close for the build to end.  It
> won't have anything to do with the content arriving on the inputstream.  As
> a result, the parser will se the second root element and blow up because the
> document is not well formed.  You will probably need to write your own
> inputstream inplementation if the socket is going to stay open or perhaps
> you could buffer and then call successive builds from a byte array or
> somesuch.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jef Dodson [mailto:jcdodson at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 8:23 PM
> > To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> > Subject: [jdom-interest] reading xml from a socket
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I want to write some code that reads xml from a tcp/ip 
> > socket.  The problem 
> > is, what if the application on the other end of the socket 
> > writes more than 
> > one document to the socket's outputstream before my 
> > application reads the 
> > document from the inputstream?  Will the build() method be 
> > smart enough to 
> > build each document separately, or will it throw an exception 
> > because it 
> > looks like the document is not well formed?  For example, 
> > suppose a client 
> > sends two messages to a server in rapid succession before the 
> > server app. 
> > reads the data from the socket, so that the xml looks like 
> > the following to 
> > the server:
> > 
> > 
> > <message id="1">
> >     <type>text</type>
> >     <body>Hello World</body>
> > </message>
> > <message id="2">
> >     <type>text</type>
> >     <body>Hello again</body>
> > </message>
> > 
> > Now, what happens when the builder.build() method is called?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Jef
> > 
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