TCP connection at the front menu will no longer bug out if the socket is bugged.

- Timeout set on connection socket so that the socket will return false after 5 seconds.
#story[782]

visualiser/src/main/java/seng302/Controllers/RaceController.java

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ public class RaceController extends Controller {
         raceMap.setBoats(boats);
         raceMap.update();
         raceBoundaries.draw();
+        //stop if the visualiser is no longer running
     }
 
     /**

visualiser/src/main/java/seng302/RaceConnection.java

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;
 import javafx.beans.property.StringProperty;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import java.net.Socket;
 
 /**
@@ -27,7 +28,9 @@ public class RaceConnection {
      */
     @SuppressWarnings("unused")
     public boolean check() {
-        try(Socket s = new Socket(hostname.get(), port)) {
+        InetSocketAddress i = new InetSocketAddress(hostname.get(), port);
+        try (Socket s = new Socket();){
+            s.connect(i, 5000);
             status.set("Ready");
             return true;
         } catch (IOException e) {}

visualiser/src/main/java/seng302/VisualiserInput.java

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ public class VisualiserInput implements Runnable
 
     private BufferedInputStream inStream;
 
+    private boolean receiverLoop = true;
+
     public VisualiserInput(Socket socket, StreamedCourse course) throws IOException{
 
         this.connectionSocket = socket;
@@ -63,7 +65,6 @@ public class VisualiserInput implements Runnable
         this.boatStatus = new HashMap<>();
         this.markRounding = new HashMap<>();
 
-
         //start Time
         this.lastHeartbeatTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
     }
@@ -169,10 +170,16 @@ public class VisualiserInput implements Runnable
     }
 
     public void run(){
+        this.receiverLoop = true;
          try{
              //receiver loop that gets the input
-             boolean receiverLoop = true;
              while(receiverLoop) {
+                 //if no heartbeat has been received in more than 6 seconds
+                 //the connection will need to be restarted
+                 if (timeSinceHeartbeat() > 6){
+                     System.out.println("Connection has stopped, trying to reconnect");
+                     receiverLoop = false;
+                 }
                  //converts the input into a byte array that can be read by the decoder
                  byte[] binaryMessage = getBytes();
                  //if there is no bytes read.
@@ -279,19 +286,16 @@ public class VisualiserInput implements Runnable
                          System.out.println("Broken Message!");
                          break;
                  }
-
-                 //if no heartbeat has been received in more than 6 seconds
-                 //the connection will need to be restarted
-                 if (timeSinceHeartbeat() > 6){
-                     System.out.println("Connection has stopped, trying to reconnect");
-                     receiverLoop = false;
-                 }
              }
          }catch(IOException e){
              e.printStackTrace();
          }
     }
 
+    public boolean isReceiverLoop() {
+        return receiverLoop;
+    }
+
     public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception
     {
         Socket socket = new Socket("livedata.americascup.com", 4941);