Sending a String and Int in the same datagramPacket

[sboothman]

Hi

I am trying to send a String and an Int number over a UDP socket in a byte array using a DatagramPacket to a server program from a client program. On the server end I need to split the byte array up and change the value of the Int number and then resend the String and Int back to the client. How can I send an Int number and a String in the same byte array, and then separate them at the server end?

Many Thanks

Sam

[nspils]

Have you looked at creating a Packet (or some other name) class with these two fields, and make the class Serializable - able to be written to a stream, transmitted, and then reconstructed. Begin your research at

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor.../io/index.html

You can write your serialized class to a ByteArrayOutputStream to create the byte[] for your DatagramPacket. Reconstruct at the other end with a ByteArrayInputStream.