How to interrupt BufferedReader's readLine

Question

I am trying to read input from a socket line by line in multiple threads. How can I interrupt readLine() so that I can gracefully stop the thread that it\'s bl

Answer 1

I think that you might have to use something other than readLine(). You could use read() and at every loop iteration check to see if the thread was interrupted and break out of the loop if it was.

BufferedReader reader = //...
int c;
while ((c = reader.read()) != -1){
  if (Thread.isInterrupted()){
    break;
  }
  if (c == '\n'){
    //newline
  }
  //...
}