In Android how to stop a thread that is wating for a new Socket

I'm developing a software that connects to a server using a Socket;

connectionThread = new Thread(new Runnable( ) {
    public void run() {
        InetAddress serverAddress = InetAddress.getByName(ip);
        serverSocket = new Socket(serverAddress, port);
        //do more stuff
        }
    });
connectionThread.start();

When the client does not connect to the server the Thread keeps waiting for the return of the n开发者_开发百科ew Socket until timeout is reached.

I want to enable the user to cancel that action. I tried then to call connectionThread.interrupt() when the user clicks the back button. But the thread keeps running.

I could let the thread runs until the new Socket timeout, but I think that It's not very good.

Don't use new Socket(serverAddress, port);. Instead, first create a new socket using new Socket(), and then connect the socket using Socket.connect(). This way, you can

1) specify a timeout for the connection (SocketTimeoutException will be raised), and

2) cancel the process from a different thread using Socket.close() (SocketException will be raised).

Here is your code snippet using this method:

connectionThread = new Thread(new Runnable( ) {
    public void run() {
        try {
            InetAddress serverAddress = InetAddress.getByName(ip);
            serverSocket = new Socket();
            serverSocket.connect(new InetSocketAddress(serverAddress,port),TIMEOUTMS);
            //do more stuff
        } catch (SocketTimeoutException ste)
        {
            // connect() timeout occurred
        } catch (SocketException se)
        {
            // socket exception during connect (e.g. socket.close() called)
        }
    }});
connectionThread.start();