How to interrupt a blocking call to UDP socket's receive() [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can close the socket from another thread. The thread blocked in receive() will then throw an IOException.

while (isListen) {
    byte[] data = new byte[1024];
    DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(data, 0, data.length);
    try {
        socket.receive(packet);
    } catch(IOException e) {
        continue;
    }
}

void stopListening() { // Call me from some other thread
    isListen = false;
    socket.close();
}