Clicking the cancel button showInputDialogue

Question

I have a question in regards to pressing the cancel button of my inputDialoguebox. I have asked a similar question before so I apologize if I seem to repeat myself.

The main problem I have is that my code executes regardless of me pressing cancel and a socket connection does get made even if I don't add any input.

Why does this happen and how can I avoid this?

String input = "";
           try
           {
               InetAddress host = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
               String hostAddress = host.getHostAddress();

               //setting label to host number so as to know what number to use
               labHostName.setText("(" + hostAddress + ")");

               input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Please enter host name to access server(dotted number only)...see number on frame", "name", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE); 

               if(input != null && "".equals(input))//input != null && input.equals(""))   
               {
                   throw new EmptyFieldsException();



               }
               else if(input != null && !input.equals(hostAddress))
               {
                   throw new HostAddressException();


               }

               else
               {

                    clientSocket = new Socket(input, 7777);

So with the code being the way it is at the moment the clientsocket connection is made even if I do press cancel. Is the reason for this perhaps because I have the Server and Client as two seperate programs on the same machine? How can I avoid this from happening?

Answer 1

When you click on the Cancel Button of the showInputDialog(...) , you always get a null value, for which no condition is satisfied, hence a new connection is always established. So you can add this condition like this :

if(input == null || (input != null && ("".equals(input))))   
{
    throw new EmptyFieldsException();
}