fate.network
Class ServerConnection

java.lang.Object

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        +--fate.network.ServerConnection

public class ServerConnection

extends java.lang.Thread

Handles all networking on the server end.

Sets up a server socket to listen on a port and spawns ServerThread objects to handle messages.

Field Summary

static int

FATE_PORT

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

ServerConnection(int port, MapPlayerInfo mapPlayerInfo)
Creates new ServerConnection

Method Summary

void	addServerThread(int id, ServerThread thread) Adds a ServerThread to the map
boolean	initialize() Initializes the server connection
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	removeServerThread(int id) Removes a ServerThread from the map
void	run() Start processing of incoming connections
boolean	sendMessage(int idClient, GameMessage msg) Sends a message to a client.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getContextClassLoader, getName, getPriority, getThreadGroup, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setName, setPriority, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

FATE_PORT

public static final int FATE_PORT

Constructor Detail

ServerConnection

public ServerConnection(int port,
                        MapPlayerInfo mapPlayerInfo)

Creates new ServerConnection

Method Detail

initialize

public boolean initialize()

Initializes the server connection

run

public void run()

Start processing of incoming connections

Overrides:

run in class java.lang.Thread

addServerThread

public void addServerThread(int id,
                            ServerThread thread)

Adds a ServerThread to the map

removeServerThread

public void removeServerThread(int id)

Removes a ServerThread from the map

sendMessage

public boolean sendMessage(int idClient,
                           GameMessage msg)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Sends a message to a client. To look at: could this possibly hold up the server? Maybe this should spawn a thread to send the message..

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