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/*
 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package org.apache.commons.net;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;

/***
 * The FingerClient class implements the client side of the Internet Finger
 * Protocol defined in RFC 1288.  To finger a host you create a
 * FingerClient instance, connect to the host, query the host, and finally
 * disconnect from the host.  If the finger service you want to query is on
 * a non-standard port, connect to the host at that port.
 * Here's a sample use:
 * 
 *    FingerClient finger;
 *
 *    finger = new FingerClient();
 *
 *    try {
 *      finger.connect("foo.bar.com");
 *      System.out.println(finger.query("foobar", false));
 *      finger.disconnect();
 *    } catch(IOException e) {
 *      System.err.println("Error I/O exception: " + e.getMessage());
 *      return;
 *    }
 * 
*

*

* @author Daniel F. Savarese ***/ public class FingerClient extends SocketClient { /*** * The default FINGER port. Set to 79 according to RFC 1288. ***/ public static final int DEFAULT_PORT = 79; private static final String __LONG_FLAG = "/W "; private transient StringBuffer __query = new StringBuffer(64); private transient char[] __buffer = new char[1024]; /*** * The default FingerClient constructor. Initializes the * default port to DEFAULT_PORT . ***/ public FingerClient() { setDefaultPort(DEFAULT_PORT); } /*** * Fingers a user at the connected host and returns the output * as a String. You must first connect to a finger server before * calling this method, and you should disconnect afterward. *

* @param longOutput Set to true if long output is requested, false if not. * @param username The name of the user to finger. * @return The result of the finger query. * @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs while reading the socket. ***/ public String query(boolean longOutput, String username) throws IOException { int read; StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(__buffer.length); BufferedReader input; input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getInputStream(longOutput, username))); while (true) { read = input.read(__buffer, 0, __buffer.length); if (read <= 0) break; result.append(__buffer, 0, read); } input.close(); return result.toString(); } /*** * Fingers the connected host and returns the output * as a String. You must first connect to a finger server before * calling this method, and you should disconnect afterward. * This is equivalent to calling query(longOutput, "") . *

* @param longOutput Set to true if long output is requested, false if not. * @return The result of the finger query. * @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs while reading the socket. ***/ public String query(boolean longOutput) throws IOException { return query(longOutput, ""); } /*** * Fingers a user and returns the input stream from the network connection * of the finger query. You must first connect to a finger server before * calling this method, and you should disconnect after finishing reading * the stream. *

* @param longOutput Set to true if long output is requested, false if not. * @param username The name of the user to finger. * @return The InputStream of the network connection of the finger query. * Can be read to obtain finger results. * @exception IOException If an I/O error during the operation. ***/ public InputStream getInputStream(boolean longOutput, String username) throws IOException { DataOutputStream output; __query.setLength(0); if (longOutput) __query.append(__LONG_FLAG); __query.append(username); __query.append(SocketClient.NETASCII_EOL); output = new DataOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(_output_, 1024)); output.writeBytes(__query.toString()); output.flush(); return _input_; } /*** * Fingers the connected host and returns the input stream from * the network connection of the finger query. This is equivalent to * calling getInputStream(longOutput, ""). You must first connect to a * finger server before calling this method, and you should disconnect * after finishing reading the stream. *

* @param longOutput Set to true if long output is requested, false if not. * @return The InputStream of the network connection of the finger query. * Can be read to obtain finger results. * @exception IOException If an I/O error during the operation. ***/ public InputStream getInputStream(boolean longOutput) throws IOException { return getInputStream(longOutput, ""); } }

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