NettyClient

import io.netty.bootstrap.Bootstrap;
import io.netty.channel.Channel;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelInitializer;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
import io.netty.channel.EventLoopGroup;
import io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup;
import io.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannel;
import io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannel;
import io.netty.handler.codec.LineBasedFrameDecoder;
import io.netty.handler.codec.string.StringEncoder;
import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;

public class NettyClient {
	private Channel channel;

	public void connect(int port, String host) {
		EventLoopGroup group = new NioEventLoopGroup();
		try {
			Bootstrap bootstrap = new Bootstrap();
			bootstrap.group(group).channel(NioSocketChannel.class).handler(new ChannelInitializer<SocketChannel>() {
				@Override
				protected void initChannel(SocketChannel ch) throws Exception {
					ChannelPipeline pipeline = ch.pipeline();
					pipeline.addLast("encoder", new StringEncoder(CharsetUtil.UTF_8));
					pipeline.addLast(new LineBasedFrameDecoder(Integer.MAX_VALUE));
					pipeline.addLast(new NettyClientHandler());
				}

			});
			ChannelFuture channelFuture = bootstrap.connect(host, port).sync();
			channel = channelFuture.channel();
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			group.shutdownGracefully();

		}

	}

	public void sendMessage(String msg) {
		try {
			if (channel != null && channel.isOpen()) {
				channel.writeAndFlush(msg).sync();
			} else {
				throw new Exception("channel is null | closed");
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			//sendReconnectMessage();
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}