Once I send 1 string, the rest are cut off, any ideas?

Question

Hello everyone.
For some reason when I send my first string through the socket, everything works fine. But after that Its cutting off the first 2 or 3 characters of the string and I have no idea why because I'm flushing the output buffer before and after I send the the string to the output buffer.
note: complete code can be found here:
http://cpp.sourceforge.net/?show=38132
Am I not flushing right?
Here's the code:
public class MultiThreadServer implements Runnable {
//csocket is whatever client is connecting to this server, in this case it will
//be a telnet client sending strings to the server.
     Socket csocket;
  MultiThreadServer(Socket csocket) {
    this.csocket = csocket;
  public void run() {
       //setting up sockets
       Socket outputServ = null;
       //create a message database to store events
          MessageDB testDB = new MessageDB();
       try {
      //setting up channel to recieve events from the omnibus server
         BufferedReader in= new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(
                    csocket.getInputStream()));
         PrintWriter out2
          = new PrintWriter(
          new OutputStreamWriter(
          csocket.getOutputStream()));
         //This socket will be used to communicate with the z/OS reciever
         //we will need a new socket each time because this is a multi-threaded
         //server thus, the  z/OS reciever (outputServ) will need to be
         //multi threaded to handle all the output.
         outputServ = new Socket("localhost",1234);
         if(outputServ.getLocalSocketAddress() == null)
              System.out.println("OutputServer isn't running...");
         //Setting up channel to send data to outputserv
          PrintWriter out
               = new PrintWriter(
               new OutputStreamWriter(
               outputServ.getOutputStream()));
     String input;
     //accepting events from omnibus server and storing them
     //in a string for later processing.
     while ((input = in.readLine()) != null)  
          //looking to see what telnet gets
          out2.println(input);
          out2.flush();
         //accepting and printing out events from omnibus server
         //also printing out connected client information
          System.out.flush();     
          System.out.println("Event from: " + csocket.getInetAddress().getHostName()
                        +"-> "+ input +"\n");
         System.out.flush();
              //sending events to output server
          out.flush();
              out.println(input);
              out.flush();
              //close the connection if the client drops
              if(in.read() == -1)
                   System.out.println("Connection closed by client.");
                   break;
    //cleaning up
      in.close();
      out.close();
      outputServ.close();
      csocket.close();
       catch (SocketException e )
            System.err.println ("Socket error: " + e);
       catch(UnknownHostException e)
            System.out.println("Unknown host: " + e);
          catch (IOException e)
           System.out.println("IOException: " + e);
}Here's some example output I'm getting from the telnet screen which is (out2) stream:
This is a test
This is another test
his is another test
This is yet another test
his is yet another test
This is a test worked fine, as you can see, it outputed This is a test when I typed it in.
The next string "This is another test" fails, as you can see its echoing out:
his is another test
I'm also printing out the contents to the console, and i'm getting out the same thing:
Enter port to run server on:
3333
Listening on : ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=3333]
Waiting for client connection...
Socket[addr=/127.0.0.1,port=2184,localport=3333] connected.
hostname: localhost
Ip address: 127.0.0.1:3333
Event from: localhost-> This is a test
Event from: localhost-> his is another test
Event from: localhost-> his is yet another test
Connection closed by client.
ANy help would be great!
Message was edited by:
lokie

Answer 1

I posted more compact code so its easier to see and understand: The run() function is where the problem is occurring.
//SAMPLE OUTPUT FROM CONSOLE
Enter port to run server on:
3333
Listening on : ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=3333]
Waiting for client connection...
Socket[addr=/127.0.0.1,port=2750,localport=3333] connected.
hostname: localhost
Ip address: 127.0.0.1:3333
Event from: localhost-> This is a test
Event from: localhost-> his is a test
Event from: localhost-> his is a test
Connection closed by client.
//------END OF SAMPLE OUTPUT-----//
//---THis class is called everytime a new thread is created,
//only 1 thread is created because only 1 client is connecting to the
//server
package server;
//parser server
import java.io.IOException.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class MultiThreadServer implements Runnable {
     Socket csocket;
MultiThreadServer(Socket csocket) {
  this.csocket = csocket;
public void run() {
       try {
    //setting up channel to recieve events from the omnibus server
       BufferedReader in= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(csocket.getInputStream()));
     String input;
     //accepting events from omnibus server and storing them
     //in a string for later processing.
     while ((input = in.readLine()) != null)  
       //accepting and printing out events from omnibus server
       //also printing out connected client information
          System.out.println("Event from: " + csocket.getInetAddress().getHostName()
                      +"-> "+ input +"\n");
          System.out.flush();     
            //close the connection if the client drops
            if(in.read() == -1)
                 System.out.println("Connection closed by client.");
                 break;
  //cleaning up
    in.close();
    csocket.close();
       catch (SocketException e )
            System.err.println ("Socket error: " + e);
       catch(UnknownHostException e)
            System.out.println("Unknown host: " + e);
          catch (IOException e)
           System.out.println("IOException: " + e);
//This is the main function, the only thing it does is
//create a new thread on each connection.
package server;
//This is the parser Client that will parse messages and send to the
//z/Os output Server
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class MainTest
       public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
            //get console input
            BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));  
            System.out.println("Enter port to run server on: ");
            String input = stdin.readLine();
            int servPort = Integer.parseInt(input);
            //setting up sockets
            ServerSocket ssock = null;
            Socket sock = null;
            try
            //setting up server to run on servPort
           ssock = new ServerSocket(servPort);
            System.out.println("Listening on : " + ssock);
            System.out.println("Waiting for client connection...");
              while (true) {
                //waiting for client to connect to server socket
                sock = ssock.accept();
                System.out.println(sock + " connected.");
                //get host information
                InetAddress clientIa = sock.getInetAddress( );
                String clientName = clientIa.getHostName();
                String clientIp = clientIa.getHostAddress();
                int localPort = sock.getLocalPort();
                System.out.println("hostname: "+clientName  +
                          '\n' + "Ip address: " + clientIp
                          +":"+ localPort + "\n\n");
                new Thread(new MultiThreadServer(sock)).start();
            catch (SocketException e )
                 System.out.println ("Socket error: " + e);
            catch(UnknownHostException e)
                 System.out.println("Unknown host: " + e);
               catch (IOException e)
                System.out.println("IOException: " + e);
}