How to break from a while cycle, that is used to receive data from a socket, when the timer ends?

Question

I have a client that receive cyclically data form a server

while (true) {
     System.out.println(in.readLine());
}

I want to set a timer of 5 sec to exit from the loop when the time is expired. I have search a lot but I haven not found anything that can help me.

I have tried with the Timer class but I found only example to schedule the execution of a task.

Another thing I tried is to use System.currentTimeMillis() but since the in.readLine() is blocking I can not break the loop and go above with the execution.

Thank you!

read more here [java timer and socket problem](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2673045/java-timer-and-socket-problem?rq=1) — Braj, Jun 06 '14 at 09:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '14 at 09:40

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You can set the socket's setSoTimeout(int) to timeout the reading of input stream.

where int is in millisecond

answered Jun 06 '14 at 09:40

Rod_Algonquin

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Thank you! It works catching the java.net.SocketTimeoutException. – Marco Mac Jun 06 '14 at 09:52

How to break from a while cycle, that is used to receive data from a socket, when the timer ends?

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