Reading/writing a string to a bytearrayoutputstream

Question

I have a small problem whereby
I want to write a string over a socket, but i want to do this using a bytearrayoutputstream.
My outputting is done like so
// CLIENT SIDE
DataOutputStream output = new DataOutputStream ( socket.getOutputStream());
// Fill up a byteArrayOutputstream so it contains 2 strings
// FileLocation and Ip_address
ByteArrayOutputStream tempbuffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
DataOutputStream buffer = new DataOutputStream( tempbuffer );
buffer.writeBytes(fileLocation);
buffer.writeBytes(ip_address);
buffer.flush();
byte[] byteArray = tempbuffer.toByteArray();
int length = byteArray.length;
output.writeInt(length);
output.write(byteArray);
I then want to read in the bytearray at the server and separate it back out ...
// SERVER SIDE
// Read in the length of the byte
int length = input.readInt();
byte[] fileInfoByte = new byte[length];
input.read(fileInfoByte);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - this works fine
// Separate the information out of the bytearray
ByteArrayInputStream bytesIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(fileInfoByte) ;
DataInputStream dataIn = new DataInputStream(bytesIn);
There seems to be no opposite of DataOutputStream.writeBytes() method
So i can read the information out of the bytearray ....
How can i separate out the strings from the bytearray ??
Much appreciated ..
M

Answer 1

In fact, you just need one more steps. All you did before just specified the whole length of the file location and ip address.
In my coding I will simply do as
DataOutputStream output = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
output.writeInt(fileLocation.length());
output.writeBytes(fileLocation);
output.writeInt(ipaddress.length());
output.writeBytes(ipaddress);At the server side, I will simply
int length = input.readInt();
byte[] fileInfoByte = new byte[length];
input.read(fileInfoByte);
length = input.readInt();
byte[] ipaddressByte = new byte[length];
input.read(ipaddressByte);