Exit from a thread
java, multithreading, udp
Solution
I had the same problem with a socket as well and interrupt() didn't work. My problem was solved by closing the socket. So in the setStop() method (as proposed above) you would have to call `serverSocket.close()` (you'd obviously have to make serverSocket a class member or something).
Problem
I have the following block of code: ``` public void startListening() throws Exception { serverSocket = new DatagramSocket(port); new Thread() { @Override public void run() { System.out.print("Started Listening"); byte[] receiveData = new byte[1024]; DatagramPacket receivePacket = new DatagramPacket(receiveData, receiveData.length); while (!stopFlag) { try { serverSocket.receive(receivePacket); String message = new String(receivePacket.getData()); System.out.println("RECEIVED: " + message); } catch (Exception ex) { System.out.print("Execption :" + ex.getMessage()); } } } }.start(); } public void stopListening() { this.stopFlag = true; } ``` Suppose I set stopFlag to true. `serverSocket.receive(receivePacket);` will wait until it receives a packet. What should I do if I want the thread to exit as soon as stopFlag is set to true.