Java

Send UTF-16 on TCP or TLS Socket

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Demonstrates how to send a string on a connected TCP or SSL/TLS socket such that it is the utf-16 byte representation that is sent. Chilkat2 Java

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

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        Socket socket = new Socket();

        boolean tls = false;
        int maxWaitMs = 20000;
        String domainOrIpAddr = "example.com";
        int port = 1234;

        // Connect to the whatever is expecting our connection...
        try {
            socket.connect(domainOrIpAddr, port, tls, maxWaitMs);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // Let's say we have an XML file saved in the utf-16 byte representation,
        // and we want to send it over the connection using the utf-16 byte representation...

        // First the file into a Chilkat StringBuilder.
        // Tell the LoadFile method that we are reading utf-16 bytes..
        StringBuilder sbXml = new StringBuilder();
        try {
            sbXml.loadFile("qa_data/xml/myUtf16.xml", "utf-16");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println("Failed to load utf-16 XML file..");
            return;
        }

        // Tell the socket object that we wish to send the utf-16 byte representation of the string.
        socket.setStringCharset("utf-16");

        // Send the string as utf-16 bytes.
        try {
            socket.sendSb(sbXml);

            // Let's say we wanted to instead send the string as utf-8 bytes.
            // Just tell the socket object...
            socket.setStringCharset("utf-8");

            // Send the string as utf-8 bytes.
            socket.sendSb(sbXml);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // If our XML file was utf-8, then just tell the StringBuilder that we're reading utf-8.
        // Once the text is properly contained in the StringBuilder, we can send the contents in any other charset (windows-1252, utf-16, utf-8, etc.)
        // as long as it make sense (i.e. we obviously can't send Japanese text using a single-byte charset such as Windows-1252).
        try {
            sbXml.loadFile("qa_data/xml/myUtf8.xml", "utf-8");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println("Failed to load utf-8 XML file..");
            return;
        }

        // Send as utf-16
        socket.setStringCharset("utf-16");

        // Send the string as utf-16 bytes.
        try {
            socket.sendSb(sbXml);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // ...
        // ...
    }
}