Objectdeserialization over network

Question

hello,

i am getting an excepetion when i try to read an object from an ObjectInputStream via network like this:

Socket socket = new Socket("localhost", 4444);
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
while ((Object o = ois.readObject()) != null) {
}

Here is the exception I get:

java.io.EOFException
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source)

The connection itself seems fine, since i am able to read strings via the network, but objects dont work.

Since it is an EOFExcepetion i assume that the stream currently sends no more data. (which is ok after the first object being sent). so i was thinking maybe i am using objectdeserialization the wrong way?

what could be the problem here? thanks!

Answer 1

Why not call available() to check whether there's stuff to read ? It's probably worth publishing your server side code. At the moment we're seeing only one side of the story.