Whenever I run my Chat Server it works until the client connects and then I get a Null Pointer exception at connections.add(socket); which crashes it and then this happens every time I run it. I know my client side is fine because I watched a tutorial a few months ago on how to do this and that server works with my client without crashing
private static ServerSocket server;
private static Socket socket;
private static Scanner input;
private static PrintWriter output;
private static final int port = 444;
private static String message;
private static ArrayList<Socket> connections;
private static Server serverClass;
public Server() {
message = "";
connections = new ArrayList<Socket>();
serverClass = new Server();
}
public void run() {
try {
try {
input = new Scanner(socket.getInputStream());
output = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream());
while(true) {
checkConnection();
if(!input.hasNext()) {
return;
}
message = input.nextLine();
System.out.println("Client said: " + message);
for(int i = 1; i <= connections.size(); i++) {
Socket tempSock = (Socket) connections.get(i - 1);
output.println(message);
output.flush();
}
}
}
finally {
socket.close();
}
}
catch(Exception e) {
System.out.print(e);
}
}
public void checkConnection() throws IOException {
if(!socket.isConnected()) {
for(int i = 1; i <= connections.size(); i++) {
if(connections.get(i) == socket) {
connections.remove(i);
}
}
for(int i = 1; i <= connections.size(); i++) {
Socket disconnectedUser = (Socket) connections.get(i - 1);
System.out.println(disconnectedUser + " has Disconnected!");
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
try {
server = new ServerSocket(port);
System.out.println("Waiting for Clients... ");
while(true) {
socket = server.accept();
connections.add(socket);
System.out.println("Client connected from: " + socket.getLocalAddress().getHostName());
Thread thread = new Thread(serverClass);
thread.start();
}
}
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
ArrayListcannot have null elements, your question is irrelevant.