Socket not closing serverside when calling socket.close() in client JAVA

Question

I'm having problems with sockets in java. I have a ServerSocket that is listening with accept() and spawns threads for each client-request. Communication between clients and the server works fine. I am using an inputstream to read data from clients in the serverthreads, like:

inputStream = mySocket.getInputStream();
bytes = inputStream.read(buffer);

My problem is that if I call socket.close() from the clients, nothing happens to the blocking call of bytes = inputStream.read(buffer);, it continues to block. But it works if I close the socket from the server, then the inputStream.read(buffer); of the client returns "-1".

SERVER-MAINTHREAD:

//SERVER MAIN THREAD, SPAWNS CLIENT THREADS
ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(SERVERPORT);
while (listening){

new ServerThread(serverSocket.accept(), monitor).start();
}

SERVER-CLIENTTHREADS:

public class ServerThread extends Thread{

public ServerThread(Socket socket, Monitor monitor) {
        this.socket = socket;
        this.monitor = monitor;
    }

    public void run(){
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int bytes;
        //Listen
        while(true){
            try {
                InputStream inputStream = socket.getInputStream();
                monitor.doStuffWithOtherThreads(Object myObject);
                bytes = inputStream.read(buffer); //Problem
                if (bytes == -1){
                    System.out.println("breaks");
                    break;
                }

                byte[] readBuf = (byte[]) buffer;
                String readMessage = new String(readBuf, 0, bytes);
                System.out.println(readMessage);
                System.out.println(bytes);


            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.out.println("Connection closed");
                break;
            }
        }
    }

CLIENT:

InetAddress serverAddr = InetAddress.getByName("serverhostname");

socket = new Socket(serverAddr, PORT);

socket.close(); //Close the socket connection from client. Nothing happens in the serverthread

Answer 1

The server code you posted doesn't check for -1. So either that is the problem or that isn't the real code, in which case you should post the real code for comment.

EDIT The code you have posted does not behave as you have described.

Answer 2

Try this in your Android client code :

socket.shutdownOutput(); 
socket.close(); 

It should be better ;-)