How to make sure stdout and stderr is caught from runtimeexec
Hi,
I have written a class that handles stdout and std err from a unix
command. How can I make sure that both threads have finished? Do I need
to synchronzie my StreamConverter?
cheers,
//mikael
public class RuntimeExec {
public RuntimeExec() {
}
/**
* Executes a command
* @param command
* @return The result of the command
* @throws IOException
*/
public String exec(String command) throws IOException {
int exitValue = 0;//0 - executed ok.
String stdOut = null;
String stdErr = null;
String result = null;//result from clearcase operation
StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer();
StringBuffer err = new StringBuffer();
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
StreamConverter outSc = new StreamConverter(process.getInputStream(),out);
StreamConverter errSc = new StreamConverter(process.getErrorStream(),err);
Thread outThread = new Thread(outSc);
Thread errThread = new Thread(errSc);
outThread.start();
errThread.start();
//Wait until the prosess finish
long delayMillis = 5000; // 5 seconds
try {
//wait for threads to die.
outThread.join(delayMillis);
if (outThread.isAlive()) {
// Timeout occurred; thread has not finished
} else {
// Finished
}
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// Thread was interrupted
}
return result;
}
// bridge between byte and character stream.
class StreamConverter implements Runnable {
private InputStreamReader isr = null;
private StringBuffer sb = null;
// end of steam
private static final int EOS = -1;
public StreamConverter(InputStream is, StringBuffer sb) {
isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
this.sb = sb;
}
public void run() {
int character = 0;
try{
while ((character = isr.read()) != EOS) {
sb.append((char)character);
}
}catch(IOException ioe){
System.out.println("Could not read std out!"+ioe.getMessage());
}
}
}
}
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