HTTPServlet Request.getInputStream() always receiving blank line

The client:

    public List<String> post(List<String> toWrite){
        String result = "";
        List<String> allResults = new ArrayList<String>();

        try {
            openConnection();
            connection.setDoOutput(true);
            connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            initializeOutputStream();
            for(int i = 0; i < toWrite.size(); i++){
                out.write(toWrite.get(i));
                out.newLine();
            }
            System.out.println(connection.getResponseCode());
            System.out.println(connection.getResponseMessage());
            initializeInputStream();
            while((result = in.readLine()) != null){
                allResults.add(result);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            closeConnection();
        }

        return allResults;
    }

One of the attempts at the host:

    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
            throws ServletException, IOException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        List<String> incoming = new ArrayList<String>();

//      BufferedReader in = req.getReader();
//
//      String tmp = in.readLine();

        resp.setContentType("text/plain");
        PrintWriter out = resp.getWriter();

        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();  
        BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;  
        try {  
          InputStream inputStream = req.getInputStream();  
          if (inputStream != null) {  
           bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(  
        inputStream));  
           char[] charBuffer = new char[128];  
           int bytesRead = -1;  
           //while ((bytesRead = bufferedReader.read(charBuffer)) > 0) {
           while(bytesRead != -1){
            stringBuilder.append(charBuffer, 0, bytesRead);  
           }  
          } else {  
           stringBuilder.append("");  
          }  
        } catch (IOException ex) {  
          throw ex;  
        } finally {  
          if (bufferedReader != null) {  
           try {  
            bufferedReader.close();  
           } catch (IOException ex) {  
            throw ex;  
           }  
          }  
        }  
        String body = stringBuilder.toString();  
        System.out.println(body);

        out.println(body);

//      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(req.getInputStream()));        
//      
//      String tmp = "";
//      
//      //while(!(in.ready())){}
//      
//      while((tmp = in.readLine()) != null){
//          System.out.println(tmp);
//      }
//
//
//      out.println(tmp);

        out.println("end");

    }

Please note the commented out lines- thats one of the many other attempts I've tried to get stuff from the client.

System.out.printlns and out.printlns from the servlett all return a blank line. The "end" at the end of the program returns without problem. It is not a problem of reading multiple lines back on the client side- if I put multiple out.println's, then I read them fine. The sys开发者_JAVA百科tem.out.println() for the inputstream also returns blank. The status code is 200, so there seems to be no connection errors.

Anyone?

It seems like your while loop doesn't do anything here, because in your case, bytesRead is always -1 thus it will never get into the loop at all, and further, you don't use your bufferedReader at all to read from the input stream:-

    int bytesRead = -1;
    while (bytesRead != -1) {
        stringBuilder.append(charBuffer, 0, bytesRead);
    }

Try this:-

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
    resp.setContentType("text/plain");
    PrintWriter out = resp.getWriter();

    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(1000);
    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(req.getInputStream());
    while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
        stringBuilder.append(scanner.nextLine());
    }

    String body = stringBuilder.toString();

    System.out.println(body);
    out.println(body);

}

Replace below lines

while(bytesRead != -1){
        stringBuilder.append(charBuffer, 0, bytesRead);  
}  

with

bufferedReader.read(charBuffer);
String str = new String(charBuffer);
System.out.println(charBuffer);

Hope it works.