| home | current issue | archives | source code | events | demo express | search | editorial calendar | advertising | customer service | author guidelines | jobs | about

"Java Alley"
by  Bruce Eckel
Web Techniques,  January 1998

Web Techniques grants permission to use these listings (and code)  for private or
commercial use provided that credit to Web Techniques and the author is
maintained within the comments of the source. For questions, contact
editors@web-techniques.com.       
     
There are 3 listings from the magazine in this file:
     
        1. This C program manages the list of email lists
        2. The java wrapper that starts the C program and initiates connections
        3. The applet's user interface


LISTING ONE


//: Listmgr.c
// Used by NameCollector.java to manage 
// the email list file on the server
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define BSIZE 250

int alreadyInList(FILE* list, char* name) {
  char lbuf[BSIZE];
  // Go to the beginning of the list:
  fseek(list, 0, SEEK_SET);
  // Read each line in the list:
  while(fgets(lbuf, BSIZE, list)) {
    // Strip off the newline:
    char * newline = strchr(lbuf, '\n');
    if(newline != 0) 
      *newline = '\0';
    if(strcmp(lbuf, name) == 0)
      return 1;
  }
  return 0;
}

int main() {
  char buf[BSIZE];
  FILE* list = fopen("emlist.txt", "a+t");
  if(list == 0) {
    perror("could not open emlist.txt");
    exit(1);
  }
  while(1) {
    gets(buf); /* From stdin */
    if(alreadyInList(list, buf)) {
      printf("Already in list: %s", buf);
      fflush(stdout);
    }
    else {
      fseek(list, 0, SEEK_END);
      fprintf(list, "%s\n", buf);
      fflush(list);
      printf("%s added to list", buf);
      fflush(stdout);
    }
  }
} ///:~



LISTING TWO


//: NameCollector.java
// Extracts email names from datagrams and stores
// them inside a file, using Java 1.02.
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class NameCollector {
  final static int COLLECTOR_PORT = 8080;
  final static int BUFFER_SIZE = 1000;
  byte buf[] = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
  DatagramPacket dp = 
    new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length);
  // Can listen & send on the same socket:
  DatagramSocket socket;
  Process listmgr;
  PrintStream nameList;
  DataInputStream addResult;
  public NameCollector() {
    try {
      listmgr =
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec("listmgr.exe");
      nameList = new PrintStream(
        new BufferedOutputStream(
          listmgr.getOutputStream()));
      addResult = new DataInputStream(
        new BufferedInputStream(
          listmgr.getInputStream()));

    } catch(IOException e) {
      System.err.println(
        "Cannot start listmgr.exe");
      System.exit(1);
    }
    try {
      socket =
        new DatagramSocket(COLLECTOR_PORT);
      System.out.println(
        "NameCollector Server started");
      while(true) {
        // Block until a datagram appears:
        socket.receive(dp);
        String rcvd = new String(dp.getData(),
            0, 0, dp.getLength());
        // Send to listmgr.exe standard input:
        nameList.println(rcvd.trim());
        nameList.flush();
        byte resultBuf[] = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
        int byteCount = 
          addResult.read(resultBuf);
        if(byteCount != -1) {
          String result = 
            new String(resultBuf, 0).trim();
          // Extract the address and port from 
          // the received datagram to find out 
          // where to send the reply:
          InetAddress senderAddress =
            dp.getAddress();
          int senderPort = dp.getPort();
          byte echoBuf[] = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
          result.getBytes(
            0, byteCount, echoBuf, 0);
          DatagramPacket echo =
            new DatagramPacket(
              echoBuf, echoBuf.length,
              senderAddress, senderPort);
          socket.send(echo);
        }
        else
          System.out.println(
            "Unexpected lack of result from " +
            "listmgr.exe");
      }
    } catch(SocketException e) {
      System.err.println("Can't open socket");
      System.exit(1);
    } catch(IOException e) {
      System.err.println("Communication error");
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    new NameCollector();
  }
} ///:~


LISTING THREE


//: NameSender.java
// An applet that sends an email address
// as a datagram, using Java 1.02.
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class NameSender extends Applet {
  Button send = new Button(
    "Add email address to mailing list");
  TextField t = new TextField(
    "type your email address here", 40);
  String str = new String();
  Label l = new Label(), l2 = new Label();
  DatagramSocket s;
  InetAddress hostAddress;
  byte buf[] = 
    new byte[NameCollector.BUFFER_SIZE];
  DatagramPacket dp = 
    new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length);
  ReplyListener pl = null;
  int vcount = 0;
  public void init() {
    setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    Panel p = new Panel();
    p.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 1));
    p.add(t);
    p.add(send);
    add("North", p);
    Panel labels = new Panel();
    labels.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 1));
    labels.add(l);
    labels.add(l2);
    add("Center", labels);
    try {
      // Auto-assign port number:
      s = new DatagramSocket();
      hostAddress = InetAddress.getByName(
        getCodeBase().getHost());
    } catch(UnknownHostException e) {
      l.setText("Cannot find host");
    } catch(SocketException e) {
      l.setText("Can't open socket");
    } 
    l.setText("Ready to send your email address");
  }
  public boolean action (Event evt, Object arg) {
    if(evt.target.equals(send)) {
      if(pl != null) {
        pl.stop();
        pl = null;
      }
      l2.setText("");
      // Check for errors in email name:
      str = t.getText().toLowerCase().trim();
      if(str.indexOf(' ') != -1) {
        l.setText("Spaces not allowed in name");
        return true;
      }
      if(str.indexOf(',') != -1) {
        l.setText("Commas not allowed in name");
        return true;
      }
      if(str.indexOf('@') == -1) {
        l.setText("Name must include '@'");
        l2.setText("");
        return true;
      }
      if(str.indexOf('@') == 0) {
        l.setText("Name must preceed '@'");
        l2.setText("");
        return true;
      }
      String end = 
        str.substring(str.indexOf('@'));
      if(end.indexOf('.') == -1) {
        l.setText("Portion after '@' must " +
          "have an extension, such as '.com'");
        l2.setText("");
        return true;
      }
      // Everything's OK, so send the name. Get a
      // fresh buffer, so it's zeroed. 
      byte sbuf[] = 
        new byte[NameCollector.BUFFER_SIZE];
      str.getBytes(0, str.length(), sbuf, 0);
      DatagramPacket toSend =
        new DatagramPacket(
          sbuf, 100, hostAddress,
          NameCollector.COLLECTOR_PORT);
      try {
        s.send(toSend);
      } catch(Exception e) {
        l.setText("Couldn't send datagram");
        return true;
      }
      l.setText("Sent: " + str);
      send.setLabel("Re-send");
      pl = new ReplyListener(this);
      l2.setText(
        "Waiting for verification " + ++vcount);
    }
    else return super.action(evt, arg);
    return true;
  }
}

class ReplyListener extends Thread {
  NameSender ns;
  ReplyListener(NameSender ns) {
    this.ns = ns;
    start();
  }
  public void run() {
    try {
      ns.s.receive(ns.dp);
    } catch(Exception e) {
      ns.l2.setText("Couldn't receive datagram");
    }
    ns.l2.setText(new String(ns.dp.getData(),
      0, 0, ns.dp.getLength()));
  }
} ///:~