My issue is fairly straightforward. My program requires immediate notification if a network connection is lost. I'm using Java 5, so I'm unable to use the very handy features of NetworkInterface.
Currently I have two different methods of checking for a network connection:
(try..catches removed)
Method One:
URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com");
HttpURLConnection urlConnect = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// trying to retrieve data from the source. If offline, this line will fail:
Object objData = urlConnect.getContent();
return true;
Method 2:
Socket socket = new Socket("www.google.com", 80);
netAccess = socket.isConnected();
socket.close();
return netAccess;
However, both of these methods block until a Timeout is reached before returning false. I need a method that will return immediately, but is compatible with Java 5.
Thanks!
EDIT:
I forgot to mention that my program is reliant on IP addresses, not DNS names. So checking for an error when resolving a host is out...
2nd EDIT:
Figured out a final solution using NetworkInterface:
Enumeration eni = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces();
while(eni.hasMoreElements()) {
Enumeration eia = eni.nextElement().getInetAddresses();
while(eia.hasMoreElements()) {
InetAddress ia = eia.nextElement();
if (!ia.isAnyLocalAddress() && !ia.isLoopbackAddress() && !ia.isSiteLocalAddress()) {
if (!ia.getHostName().equals(ia.getHostAddress()))
return true;
}
}
}
解决方案
From JGuru
Starting with Java 5, there is an isReachable() method in the
InetAddress class. You can specify either a timeout or the
NetworkInterface to use. For more information on the underlying
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) used by ping, see RFC 792
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc792.html).
Usage from Java2s
int timeout = 2000;
InetAddress[] addresses = InetAddress.getAllByName("www.google.com");
for (InetAddress address : addresses) {
if (address.isReachable(timeout))
System.out.printf("%s is reachable%n", address);
else
System.out.printf("%s could not be contacted%n", address);
}
If you want to avoid blocking use Java NIO (Non-blocking IO) in the java.nio package
String host = ...;
InetSocketAddress socketAddress = new InetSocketAddress(host, 80);
channel = SocketChannel.open();
channel.configureBlocking(false);
channel.connect(socketAddress);