edwin :
I have a Tcp client that connect to a old mainframe (52 years) that send and receive request and response from it.
Here is core connection part of the my client ,
public class SimpleConnector {
private String carrier;
private SocketChannel socketChannel;
public static final byte END_OF_MESSAGE_BYTE = (byte) 0x2b;
public SimpleConnector(String carrier, InetSocketAddress inetSocketAddress) throws IOException {
this.carrier = this.carrier;
socketChannel = SocketChannel.open();
socketChannel.socket().connect(inetSocketAddress, 30000);
}
public void shutDown() throws IOException {
this.socketChannel.close();
}
//Send Request
public String sendRequest(String request) throws Exception {
final CharsetEncoder charsetEncoder = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1").newEncoder();
int requestLength = 12 + request.length() + 1;
ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(requestLength);
buffer.order(ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN);
buffer.putInt(requestLength);
buffer.put(charsetEncoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(carrier)));
buffer.put(charsetEncoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(request)));
buffer.put(END_OF_MESSAGE_BYTE);
buffer.flip();
socketChannel.write(buffer);
return readResponse();
}
//Read Response
protected String readResponse() throws Exception {
CharsetDecoder charsetDecoder = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1").newDecoder();
int responseHeaderLength = 12;
ByteBuffer responseHeaderBuf = ByteBuffer.allocate(responseHeaderLength);
responseHeaderBuf.order(ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN);
int bytesRead = 0;
do {
bytesRead = socketChannel.read(responseHeaderBuf);
} while (bytesRead!=-1 && responseHeaderBuf.position()<responseHeaderLength);
if (bytesRead==-1) {
throw new IOException(carrier + " : Remote connection closed unexpectedly");
}
responseHeaderBuf.flip();
int lengthField = responseHeaderBuf.getInt();
int responseLength = lengthField - responseHeaderLength;
responseHeaderBuf.clear();
ByteBuffer responseBuf = ByteBuffer.allocate(responseLength);
bytesRead = socketChannel.read(responseBuf);
if (bytesRead>responseBuf.limit() || bytesRead ==-1) {
throw new IOException(carrier + " : Remote connection closed unexpectedly");
}
responseBuf.flip();
if (responseBuf.get(responseBuf.limit()-1)==END_OF_MESSAGE_BYTE) {
responseBuf.limit(responseBuf.limit()-1);
}
responseBuf.clear();
String response = charsetDecoder.decode(responseBuf).toString();
return response;
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
SimpleConnector simpleConnector = new SimpleConnector("carrier",new InetSocketAddress("localhost",9999));
String response=simpleConnector.sendRequest("Request");
System.out.println(response);
}
}
I'm trying to rewrite the following piece using Netty. By using following tutorial as reference.
- http://tutorials.jenkov.com/netty/netty-tcp-client.html
- https://www.baeldung.com/netty
- https://github.com/deepanprabhu/netty-twoway-tcp-client-server
The problem I'm facing is I was able to connect to server but couldn't read or write from it . I'm using a ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter to do the read and write operations.
Here is my Netty Client
public class NettyClient {
int port;
Channel channel;
EventLoopGroup workGroup = new NioEventLoopGroup();
public NettyClient(int port){
this.port = port;
}
public ChannelFuture connectLoop() throws Exception {
try{
Bootstrap b = new Bootstrap();
b.group(workGroup);
b.channel(NioSocketChannel.class);
b.option(ChannelOption.SO_KEEPALIVE, true);
b.handler(new ChannelInitializer<SocketChannel>() {
protected void initChannel(SocketChannel socketChannel) throws Exception {
socketChannel.pipeline().addLast(new NettyClientHandler());
}
});
ChannelFuture channelFuture = b.connect("remote-ip", this.port).sync();
this.channel = channelFuture.channel();
return channelFuture;
}finally{
}
}
public void shutdown(){
workGroup.shutdownGracefully();
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
try {
NettyClient nettyClient = new NettyClient(12000);
ChannelFuture channelFuture = nettyClient.connectLoop();
System.out.println("Sleep 2sec");
Thread.sleep(2000);
String command ="username";
final Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
int length = 13 + command.length();
if (channelFuture.isSuccess()) {
ByteBuf byteBuf = Unpooled.buffer(1024);
byteBuf.writeInt(length);
byteBuf.writeCharSequence("Some Info",charset);
byteBuf.writeCharSequence(command,charset);
channelFuture.channel().writeAndFlush(byteBuf).addListener(new ListenerImpl());
}
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
System.out.println("Try Starting Server First !!");
}
finally {
}
}
private static final class ListenerImpl implements ChannelFutureListener{
public void operationComplete(ChannelFuture channelFuture) throws Exception {
if (channelFuture.isSuccess()){
System.out.println("Success"); //I can see success in Listener after write, but couldn't read response
}else {
System.out.println("Failed");
}
}
}
}
Handler
public class NettyClientHandler extends ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter {
@Override
public void channelReadComplete(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception {
super.channelReadComplete(ctx);
}
@Override
public void channelRead(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg) throws Exception {
System.out.println("NettyClientHandler : channelRead" );
ByteBuf byteBuf = (ByteBuf) msg;
String message = byteBuf.toString(Charset.defaultCharset());
System.out.println("Received Message : " + message);
}
@Override
public void channelActive(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception {
super.channelActive(ctx);
System.out.println("NettyClientHandler : channelActive" );
}
}
I Initially thought netty will work only with netty servers.But this answer clear my doubt about that
Does a Netty client work with a netty server only?
Can some one guide me, what I'm doing wrong ???
Rajkumar Natarajan :
I think the problem is with your ClientHandler. you should writeAndFlush() in channelActive method invoked when a connection has been established between the tcp server and client. Please use the below updated code and see whether it fixes the problem.
@Sharable
public class NettyClientHandler extends SimpleChannelInboundHandler<ByteBuf> {
@Override
public void channelRead0(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ByteBuf byteBuf) throws Exception {
String message = byteBuf.toString(Charset.defaultCharset());
System.out.println("Received Message : " + message);
}
@Override
public void channelActive(ChannelHandlerContext channelHandlerContext){
channelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Netty Rocks!", CharsetUtil.UTF_8));
}
}