QuoteOfTheMomentClient Class — netty Architecture

Source Code

example/src/main/java/io/netty/example/qotm/QuoteOfTheMomentClient.java lines 36–67

public final class QuoteOfTheMomentClient {

    static final int PORT = Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty("port", "7686"));

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        EventLoopGroup group = new MultiThreadIoEventLoopGroup(NioIoHandler.newFactory());
        try {
            Bootstrap b = new Bootstrap();
            b.group(group)
             .channel(NioDatagramChannel.class)
             .option(ChannelOption.SO_BROADCAST, true)
             .handler(new QuoteOfTheMomentClientHandler());

            Channel ch = b.bind(0).sync().channel();

            // Broadcast the QOTM request to port 8080.
            ch.writeAndFlush(new DatagramPacket(
                    Unpooled.copiedBuffer("QOTM?", CharsetUtil.UTF_8),
                    SocketUtils.socketAddress("255.255.255.255", PORT))).sync();

            // QuoteOfTheMomentClientHandler will close the DatagramChannel when a
            // response is received.  If the channel is not closed within 5 seconds,
            // print an error message and quit.
            if (!ch.closeFuture().await(5000)) {
                System.err.println("QOTM request timed out.");
            }
        } finally {
            group.shutdownGracefully();
        }
    }
}