sending strings with bluetooth

[slippy]

hi all,

I am having trouble sending a string over bluetooth.
here is my code

device
String a = "hello";
output.writeChars(a);
output.flush();

computer
String otp = input.readUTF();

The problem is the string that is received is completely different to the string that is sent.

I think readUTF is wrong but not really sure what to use instead.

thanks

[Shawn]

How about this?

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device
String a = "hello";
output.writeUTF(a);
 

http://lejos.sourceforge.net/nxt/nxj/api/index.html

see java.io

[slippy]

thanks for your reply.

I did try that and it chucked a exception which I added a try/catch round which said "not yet implemented" when thrown.

I checked my os version im running 0.85 which i think is the latest version.

[Shawn]

Well I think you could :

1)convert the string to a byte array --byte[] data
2) get the data.length().
3) write the lenght to your outputstream
4) write the data

(send data)

5) read the length and create an array of that length
6) read that many bytes into your array
7) make a string from the byte array you just created

voila presto magic

[slippy]

I thought that bytes could only hold numbers ?
I need to hold hexadecimal

[Shawn]

I thought that bytes could only hold numbers ?
I need to hold hexadecimal

Yes bytes only hold numbers, but no it'll work because you if mark how long each byte array is and use that to know how much data to put into the array, you can send as much text as you want via byte arrays. Basically, it is what pascal does for utf8 I believe instead of using a null terminating character that is in c I think.

hexadecimal --> string --> byte[]

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getBytes

public byte[] getBytes(String charset)

    Get bytes in US Acsii

    Parameters:
        charset - ignored
    Returns:
        the ascii bytes

byte[] --->string -->hexadecimal

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public String(byte[] b)

    Create a String from a byte array

    Parameters:
        b - the byte array


Note I'm leaving hexadecimal conversion to you but from a string that is no problem I suspect

[burti]

the issue has been discussed.
see http://lejos.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1332 for more details and my solution

[slippy]

Thanks for your help