vooga.engine.networking.client
Class ClientConnection

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      vooga.engine.networking.GameSocket
          vooga.engine.networking.client.ClientConnection

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class ClientConnection
extends GameSocket

Basic class for connecting to the server from the client and sending and receiving data. Works for basic games but can be extended to add more complicated functionality. Override the getData() method to deal with receiving messages from the socket and the sendData() method for sending messages to the socket.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class vooga.engine.networking.GameSocket

outStream

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

ClientConnection(java.lang.String name)
Calls GameSocket constructor with the server's IP address and the port.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getData() Listen for incoming data for the game.
void	sendData(Serializeable data) Send a Serializeable object over the network.
void	sendGameOver() Tell the server that the game is over.

Methods inherited from class vooga.engine.networking.GameSocket

closeConnections, finalize, isConnected, receive, run, send

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, clone, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ClientConnection

public ClientConnection(java.lang.String name)
                 throws java.net.UnknownHostException,
                        java.io.IOException

Calls GameSocket constructor with the server's IP address and the port. The port is based on the name of the game since each game has a different port that it operates on.

Parameters:

name - the name of the game you're trying to connect to and from

Throws:

java.net.UnknownHostException

java.io.IOException

Method Detail

getData

public java.lang.String getData()

Listen for incoming data for the game. If the data is null then return gameOver otherwise just return the data String.

Returns:

data that was sent over the network

sendData

public void sendData(Serializeable data)

Send a Serializeable object over the network. Calls the Serializeable object's serialize method to convert it to a String to send to the socket.

Parameters:

data - the Serializeable object sent over the network

sendGameOver

public void sendGameOver()

Tell the server that the game is over.