Java sockets - Custom Objects Sending

Question

I have created working sockets, and when I try to send text or numbers, its ok, but when im trying to send my custom class object, i got NullPointerException... Here is some cod

Answer 1

Code snippets below works with all kind serializable objects for me. Please check.

*IRequest is object to send. *IResponse is object to get.

Client Code:

    Socket clientSocket = new Socket(hostName, portNo);
    clientSocket.setSoTimeout(connectionTimeout);
    try {
        OutputStream outputStream = clientSocket.getOutputStream();
        InputStream inputStream = clientSocket.getInputStream();
        ObjectOutputStream objOutputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(outputStream);
        ObjectInputStream objInputStream = null;

        try {
            objOutputStream.writeObject(request);
            objOutputStream.flush();
            objInputStream = new ObjectInputStream(inputStream);
            res = (IResponse) objInputStream.readObject();
        } finally {
            if (objOutputStream != null) {
                objOutputStream.close();
            }
            if (outputStream != null) {
                outputStream.close();
            }
            if (objInputStream != null) {
                objInputStream.close();
            }
            if (inputStream != null) {
                inputStream.close();
            }
        }
    } finally {
        clientSocket.close();
        clientSocket = null;
    }

Server Code:

        private IMessageProcessor messageProcessor = null;
        private Socket clientSocket = null;
        private Logger logger = null;


        String clientIP = clientSocket.getInetAddress().getHostAddress();
        int clientPortNr = clientSocket.getPort();

        InputStream inputStream = clientSocket.getInputStream();
        OutputStream outputStream = clientSocket.getOutputStream();
        try {
            ObjectInputStream objInputStream = null;
            ObjectOutputStream objOutputStream = null;
            try {
                IRequest request = null;

                objInputStream = new ObjectInputStream(inputStream);
                objOutputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(outputStream);
                request = (IRequest) objInputStream.readObject();

                IResponse response = null;

                try {
                    response = messageProcessor.processMessage(clientIP,
                                                                clientPortNr,
                                                                request,
                                                                logger);
                    objOutputStream.writeObject(response);
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                    objOutputStream.writeObject(ex);
                }

                objOutputStream.flush();
                objOutputStream.reset();

            } finally {
                if (objInputStream != null)
                    objInputStream.close();
                if (objOutputStream != null)
                    objOutputStream.close();
            }
        } finally {
            inputStream.close();
            outputStream.close();
            clientSocket.close();
        }
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        logger.error(ex.getMessage());
    }

Answer 2

You need to Serialize your Custom class before sending it through socket.The object that you are sending in

out.writeObject(list);

should be serialized, your class should implement java.io.Serializable interface