Check Whether a Socket Is Writable

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Demonstrates Socket.CheckWriteable, which waits for the connected socket to become writable. It returns 1 if writable, 0 if it did not become writable before the timeout, or -1 on error.

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Socket;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Socket socket = new Socket();

        // Connect to the server using TLS.
        boolean bTls = true;
        int maxWaitMs = 5000;
        try {
            socket.connect("example.com", 5000, bTls, maxWaitMs);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // Wait up to 5 seconds for the socket to become writable.  Returns 1 if writable, 0 if it did not
        // become writable before the timeout, or -1 on error.
        int writable = socket.checkWriteable(5000);
        if (writable < 0) {
            System.out.println(socket.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        if (writable != 1) {
            System.out.println("The socket did not become writable before the timeout.");
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("The socket is writable.");
    }
}