Wait for a Socket to Become Writable

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Demonstrates Socket.SelectForWriting, which waits for the socket, or sockets in a socket set, to become writable. It returns 1 if writable, 0 on 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 (or sockets in a socket set) to become writable.  Returns 1 if
        // writable, 0 on timeout, or -1 on error.
        int ready = socket.selectForWriting(5000);
        if (ready < 0) {
            System.out.println(socket.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

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

        System.out.println("The socket is ready for writing.");
    }
}