How to send a class instance via socket?

[Chris Ben]

Hi,
I am not quite familiar with ObjectInput and OutputStream? Can someone post an example showing how to send an object via socket from server to client?
Thank you for your help.
Chris

[matt hooker]

Originally posted by Chris Ben:
Hi,
I am not quite familiar with ObjectInput and OutputStream? Can someone post an example showing how to send an object via socket from server to client?
Thank you for your help.
Chris

Hi Chris,
try something like :
try
{
socket = new Socket(host_name, port_number);
out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream())), true);
out.write(your_object);
}
catch (IOException io_ex)
{
System.err.println("Failed to create socket, " + host + ":" + port);
socket = null;
}
Matt.
p.s I will send a better (tested example) if you can't get something like this to work. Good Luck.

[Chris Ben]

Thank you for your help.
I tried the polish the code, but I am stuck as the error below. My construct of socket failed to write out a object. And I even have no chance to try the server side.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot
Chris

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
class TCPClient {
public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception
{
myVector v=new myVector();
String host="localhost";
int port=6780;
Socket clientSocket=null;
PrintWriter outToServer=null;
try
{
clientSocket = new Socket("localhost", 6780);
outToServer = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new ObjectOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream()))), true);
outToServer.write(v);
}
catch (IOException io_ex)
{
System.err.println("Failed to create socket, " + host + ":" + port);
clientSocket = null;
}
clientSocket.close();
}
}

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Vector;
class myVector implements Serializable{
...
}
Error:
symbol : method write (myVector)
location: class java.io.PrintWriter
outToServer.write(v);
^
1 error
Tool completed with exit code 1