reading bytes from bytebuffer?

[nooneinparticular314159]

I'm reading some bytes sent over the network from a bytebuffer that
I'm using with Java.NIO. The last time I tried this, I was reading
text data, so I created a charbuffer view of the bytebuffer and
appended to a string until my string was long enough to contain the
data that I wanted to manipulate. This time, I want to get bytes out,
and I'm being sent bytes. Great! Except what I can't figure out is
how to tell if enough bytes have arrived yet.

ie. Let's say that I really want 100 bytes of data. Until 100 bytes
arrive, I can't do anything useful with the data. How can I test to
see if 100 new bytes are currently available for reading in the
bytebuffer? What happens if, say, only 60 bytes have arrived? Is
there a way to test the length of the newly arrived bytes and not read
from the buffer until 100 show up?

Thanks!

 

[EJP]

ie. Let's say that I really want 100 bytes of data. Until 100 bytes
arrive, I can't do anything useful with the data. How can I test to
see if 100 new bytes are currently available for reading in the
bytebuffer?
ByteBuffer.position()

What happens if, say, only 60 bytes have arrived?

You should read some more data from the channel.

Is there a way to test the length of the newly arrived bytes and not read
from the buffer until 100 show up?

ByteBuffer.position()

 

[Knute Johnson]

I'm reading some bytes sent over the network from a bytebuffer that
I'm using with Java.NIO. The last time I tried this, I was reading
text data, so I created a charbuffer view of the bytebuffer and
appended to a string until my string was long enough to contain the
data that I wanted to manipulate. This time, I want to get bytes out,
and I'm being sent bytes. Great! Except what I can't figure out is
how to tell if enough bytes have arrived yet.

ie. Let's say that I really want 100 bytes of data. Until 100 bytes
arrive, I can't do anything useful with the data. How can I test to
see if 100 new bytes are currently available for reading in the
bytebuffer? What happens if, say, only 60 bytes have arrived? Is
there a way to test the length of the newly arrived bytes and not read
from the buffer until 100 show up?

Thanks!

Create your buffer the size you need to read and call
SocketChannel.read() until the hasRemaining() of the buffer is 0.

 

[Knute Johnson]

You should read some more data from the channel.


ByteBuffer.position()

I like that even better.

 

[Nigel Wade]

I'm reading some bytes sent over the network from a bytebuffer that
I'm using with Java.NIO. The last time I tried this, I was reading
text data, so I created a charbuffer view of the bytebuffer and
appended to a string until my string was long enough to contain the
data that I wanted to manipulate. This time, I want to get bytes out,
and I'm being sent bytes. Great! Except what I can't figure out is
how to tell if enough bytes have arrived yet.

ie. Let's say that I really want 100 bytes of data. Until 100 bytes
arrive, I can't do anything useful with the data. How can I test to
see if 100 new bytes are currently available for reading in the
bytebuffer? What happens if, say, only 60 bytes have arrived? Is
there a way to test the length of the newly arrived bytes and not read
from the buffer until 100 show up?

Thanks!

ByteBuffer doesn't actually read anything from an input stream. It is merely a
convenience wrapper around an already created byte array. If you need 100 bytes
in the byte array then you need to ensure that they are provided by whatever
stream input you are using to populate the byte array. One way is to use a
DataInputStream and use the readFully() method of that class.