Socket
Write text to Socket
In this example we shall show you how to write text to aSocket. To write text to a Socket one should perform the following steps:
- Get the output stream of the socket, using
getOutputStream()API method of Socket. - Create anOutputStreamWriter with the socket ouputstream.
- Create aBufferedWriter that uses a default-sized output buffer.
- Use
write(String str)API method to write the text andflush()API method to flush the stream. - Don’t forget to close the BufferedWriter, using the
close()API method,
as described in the code snippet below.
try {BufferedWriter wr = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream()));wr.write("Data to be sent");wr.flush();wr.close(); }catch (IOException ioe) {System.out.println("I/O Error " + ioe.getMessage());}
This was an example of how to write text to a Socket in Java.
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