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Measure Size of Data Sent over Socket

I was thinking about how you would read how much data you send over a Socket. For example if I made a Chat Application and then wanted to find out how much a message would take (in kilobytes or bytes), how would I measure this?

I send a message like "Hello, world!". How do I measure the amount of bandwidth that would take to send?

I know there are programs to monitor how much data is sent and received over the wire and all that, but I wanted to try and do this myself to learn some.

Solution

  • Wrap the socket's output stream in a CountingOutputStream:

    CountingOutputStream cos = new CountingOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
cos.write(...);
System.out.println("wrote " + cos.getByteCount() + " bytes");