Read String from Arduino serial port with JAVA and jssc lib

Question

String Serial_Input must contain a serial number card RFID (MIFARE) like this A45F45A7 (8 byte). sometimes when I approach the card to the RFID reader of arduino the string is like this A45F45 (truncated) , miss any char. there is a solution better that while loop ? (more elegant and efficient) Using Arduino IDE Serial Monitor the card's serial number is correct.

public static void connectionToCom(SerialPort serialPort, ComboBox<String> cbxComPort, TextArea txaMessages) throws SerialPortException
{       
    int baudrate = 9600; int databits = 8; int stopbits = 1; int parity = 0;

    serialPort.openPort() ;
    serialPort.setParams(baudrate, databits, stopbits, parity) ;

    String Serial_Input = null;

    try {
        while (true)
        {
            if (serialPort.readString() != null)
            {
                Serial_Input = serialPort.readString(8);

                System.out.println("Card Serial: " + Serial_Input + "\n");
                //serialPort.closePort();
            }
        }
    } 
    catch (SerialPortException ex){
        txaMessages.appendText(ex.toString());
    }
}

Here the result image

Thiago Trindade Thiago Trindade · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-24T13:11:08

You could use the method addEventListener(SerialPortEventListener listener, int mask). It call a callback method whenever you receive a byte via serialPort.

The problem with the incomplete string could be 2 problems

The code is executing before the whole string is received. To solve this, you must add a code to verify the length of string you are receiving.
You are using readString twice. You may lost some bytes of the string in first usage.

Read String from Arduino serial port with JAVA and jssc lib

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