Tabman, I think that's the best idea yet, but I'm surprised the Apache classes don't offer some mechanism for "manually" interrupting the I/O blocks. After all, we can set timeouts on all of the I/O operations, which will interrupt the blocks with socket timeout exceptions etc.
Thanks. On Jan 7, 1:31 pm, Tabman <tabishfay...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you can extend the InputStream class and override its read > method and inside read you can cancel/stop the read loop operation > whenever you want to. > > Here is the source for > InputStream.javahttp://www.docjar.com/html/api/java/io/InputStream.java.html > > Let me know if this solves your problem. > > On Jan 7, 7:07 pm, ivan <istas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm wondering what the currently suggested method is for interrupting > > a read operation of a socket input stream? > > > I know that traditionally the read could be interrupted by closing the > > socket from another thread and catching an IOException, but I'm not > > quite sure how to get at the socket from the apache classes. > > > Maybe I should use some sort of interruptible channel instead ... ? > > > Any links or help is greatly appreciated. > > > My code looks like this -- minus most of the error handling: > > > org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient > > org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet > > org.apache.http.HttpResponse > > > DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParameters); > > > HttpGet request = new HttpGet(Uri); > > > HttpResponse response = client.execute(request); > > > InputStream entityStream = response.getEntity().getContent(); > > > try > > { > > bytesRead = entityStream.read(data);} > > > catch (IOException ex) > > { > > > } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
