ObjectInputStream and socket timeout

Question

I have a series of objects that are sent over a network socket.

The code for reading the data is already implemented and kind of works, but my problem is that sometimes the socket timeout cuts the read (ObjectInputStream.readObject()) of an object, corrupting the stream.

I use a timeout because this reading is performed within a JBoss resource adapter, so I don't want it to block indefinitely and potentially disable undeployment or graceful stopping of the EAR.

Is there a graceful (interruptible) way of handling reading object streams without using a separate thread and forcefully killing it?

P.S. I am aware that using object streams is a very bad decision, but that's just how the client applications are sending the data, and I can't change that.

Answer 1

I have something like this.

private volatile boolean closed = false;
private Closable/*e.g. ObjectOutputStream */ onClose = ...;


public void close() {
    closed = true;
    try {
        if (onCLose != null) onClose.close();
    } catch(IOException ignored) {
    }
}


private Object readObject() {
    try {
         if (closed) throw new IllegalStateException();
         return steam.readObject();
    } finally {
         if (closed) throw new IllegalStateException();
    }
}