Class NetLogClient

java.lang.Object
  NetLogClient

All Implemented Interfaces:

DrinkLoggerSpec

public class NetLogClient

extends Object

implements DrinkLoggerSpec

The client side of the software that implements the remote logging capabilities for the drink software. The client simply connects to the server and sends the messages to the server. The server will log the date, the source machine, and the actual message.

Version:

$Revision: #9 $

Author:

Kevin Thompson [antiduh@csh.rit.edu]

Nested Class Summary

private class

NetLogClient.LogConnectionMgr This inner class is designed to maintain the socket connection from the NetLogClient to the NetLogServer.

Field Summary

private Socket	connection The connection to the server which actually stores the log.
private String	host The hostname or IP of the host we are connected to.
private PrintWriter	output The PrintWriter that is connected to the socket that we use for sending the log message to the server.
private int	port The port on the server that we are connected to.

Constructor Summary

NetLogClient(ConfigMgr configMgr)
Set up the class using the configuration values from the given ConfigMgr.

Method Summary

void	initialize(String host, int port) Set up the client-side of the networked logging software.
private void	printDemarcation() A small helper method to print the demarcation that is printed when a new server session is started.
void	println(String message) Logs a message to the server.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

connection

private Socket connection

The connection to the server which actually stores the log. We simply send a line over the connection to the server to store a log message.

host

private String host

The hostname or IP of the host we are connected to.

port

private int port

The port on the server that we are connected to.

output

private PrintWriter output

The PrintWriter that is connected to the socket that we use for sending the log message to the server.

Constructor Detail

NetLogClient

public NetLogClient(ConfigMgr configMgr)

Set up the class using the configuration values from the given ConfigMgr.

Parameters:

configMgr - Where to get our runtime configuration values from.

Method Detail

initialize

public void initialize(String host,
                       int port)

Set up the client-side of the networked logging software.

Parameters:

host - The hostname or IP of the machine to use as the server.

port - The port on the host machine to connect to.

println

public void println(String message)

Logs a message to the server. If the message fails to send, then the method will return false.

Specified by:

println in interface DrinkLoggerSpec

Parameters:

message - The message to send to the server. The message should not not contain any time stamp or other such meta-data. The server will include this data. The message should contain just that - only the actual message.

printDemarcation

private void printDemarcation()

A small helper method to print the demarcation that is printed when a new server session is started.