ClientHandler

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.Socket;

import javafx.scene.control.TextArea;


public class ClientHandler implements Runnable{

	private int portNumber;
	private BufferedWriter out;
	TextArea chatLog;
	Socket socket;

	ClientHandler(int portNumber, TextArea chatLog) {
		this.portNumber = portNumber;
		this.chatLog = chatLog;
	}

	@Override
	public void run() {
		try {
			socket = new Socket("localhost", portNumber);
			out = new BufferedWriter( new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream()));
			BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));


				while(true) {

					if(in.ready()) {

						chatLog.appendText(in.readLine());
					}

				}

		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

	//sends message to server
	public void sendToServer(String message) {
		try {
			out.write(message);
			out.flush();
		} catch (IOException e) {

			e.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

	//closes connection to socket
	public void closeConnection() {
		try {
			socket.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}