Java chat-commands

Question

I was making a chat program in Java (Java Socket) and I was thinking about making build-in-commands! For and example; you write "date" and it will show the date! Here I have maked one but it dosen't work. It shows only the "else" satement!

            streamChat = (String) inputdata.readObject();       //Reading the object.. and storing it in a variable...
            if(streamChat.equals("date")){
                Date date = new Date();
                showMess("\n " + date);

            }else{
                showMess("\n " + streamChat);
            }

Answer 1

The answer is simple... I see that streamChat = (String) inputdata.readObject(); is INPUT from the client. So only if the client send "date" you will get the date. Remove if statement to another place in the output area.