hosting a game now continues to send out the info of the race

#story[1188]

racevisionGame/src/main/java/visualiser/Controllers/HostController.java

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public class HostController extends Controller {
     public void alertMatchBrowser(){
         MatchBrowserInterface matchBrowserInterface = new MatchBrowserInterface();
         try{
-            matchBrowserInterface.sendOutGameInfo(this.game.getHostedGameData(), udpSocket);
+            matchBrowserInterface.startSendingHostData(this.game.getHostedGameData(), udpSocket);
         }catch (IOException e){
             System.err.println("failed to send out hosted game info");
         }

racevisionGame/src/main/java/visualiser/network/MatchBrowserHostRunnable.java

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package visualiser.network;
+
+import network.Exceptions.InvalidMessageException;
+import network.Messages.AC35Data;
+import network.Messages.HostGame;
+import shared.model.RunnableWithFramePeriod;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.DatagramSocket;
+
+
+public class MatchBrowserHostRunnable implements RunnableWithFramePeriod {
+
+    private MatchBrowserInterface matchBrowserInterface;
+    private DatagramSocket socket;
+    private AC35Data gameInfo;
+
+    public MatchBrowserHostRunnable(MatchBrowserInterface matchBrowserInterface, DatagramSocket socket, AC35Data gameInfo) {
+        this.matchBrowserInterface = matchBrowserInterface;
+        this.socket = socket;
+        this.gameInfo = gameInfo;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void run(){
+        long previousFrameTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
+        while (!Thread.interrupted()) {
+
+            long currentFrameTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+            waitForFramePeriod(previousFrameTime, currentFrameTime, 10000);
+            previousFrameTime = currentFrameTime;
+
+            try{
+                matchBrowserInterface.sendOutGameInfo(gameInfo, socket);
+            }catch (IOException e){
+                System.err.println("HostGameMessage could not be sent");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

racevisionGame/src/main/java/visualiser/network/MatchBrowserInterface.java

@@ -7,11 +7,14 @@ import network.MessageEncoders.HostedGamesRequestEncoder;
 import network.Messages.AC35Data;
 import network.Messages.Enums.MessageType;
 import network.Messages.HostGamesRequest;
+import shared.model.RunnableWithFramePeriod;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.*;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 /**
  * UDP interface for the matchBrowser to send out hosted game info and get in other hosts info
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ public class MatchBrowserInterface {
      * @param gameInfo the hostGame info for message
      * @param socket the udp socket assigned on startup
      */
-    public void sendOutGameInfo(AC35Data gameInfo, DatagramSocket socket) throws IOException{
+    protected void sendOutGameInfo(AC35Data gameInfo, DatagramSocket socket) throws IOException{
         byte[] fullMessageToSend;
         try{
             HostGameMessageEncoder encoder = new HostGameMessageEncoder();
@@ -50,12 +53,20 @@ public class MatchBrowserInterface {
 
             DatagramPacket sendPacket = new DatagramPacket(fullMessageToSend, fullMessageToSend.length, IPAddress, port);
             socket.send(sendPacket);
-
         }catch (InvalidMessageException e){
             System.err.println("HostGameMessage could not be encoded");
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * start to send these messages on repeat until game stopped
+     */
+    public void startSendingHostData(AC35Data gameInfo, DatagramSocket socket){
+        MatchBrowserHostRunnable hostRunnable = new MatchBrowserHostRunnable(this, socket, gameInfo);
+        Thread hostRunnableThread = new Thread(hostRunnable, "Socket: " + socket.toString());
+        hostRunnableThread.start();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Used by a client to setup a connection with the match browser server
      * @return the socket created for this connection