fate.network
Class ClientConnection

java.lang.Object
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  +--fate.network.ClientConnection

public class ClientConnection

extends java.lang.Object

Attempts to create a network connection between client and server.

After calling connect(LoginMessage), on sucessful connection with the server, this will spawn a new ClientThread to handle incoming messages. Messages will be stored in the messageBuffer and can be retrieved sequentially using messagesAvailable() and nextMessage().

Constructor Summary

ClientConnection(java.lang.String host, int port)
Creates new ClientConnection

Method Summary

boolean	connect(LoginMessage loginMessage) Opens a connection to the server
boolean	messagesAvailable() Returns true if there are messages in the message buffer
java.lang.Object	nextMessage() Returns the next message in the buffer, or NULL is there are none.
void	receiveMessage(java.lang.Object msg) Called by the communications thread to receive a message
void	sendMessage(GameMessage msg) Sends a message to the server

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ClientConnection

public ClientConnection(java.lang.String host,
                        int port)

Creates new ClientConnection

Method Detail

connect

public boolean connect(LoginMessage loginMessage)
                throws java.net.UnknownHostException,
                       java.io.IOException

Opens a connection to the server

sendMessage

public void sendMessage(GameMessage msg)

Sends a message to the server

receiveMessage

public void receiveMessage(java.lang.Object msg)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Called by the communications thread to receive a message

messagesAvailable

public boolean messagesAvailable()

Returns true if there are messages in the message buffer

nextMessage

public java.lang.Object nextMessage()

Returns the next message in the buffer, or NULL is there are none. Should check with messagesAvailable first to see if there are any