package client;

// Client/Client.java class represents the client that has to relay on the Hello engine
// to perform tasks remotely.
// it needs the Hello interface from Hello package
import hello.Hello;

// it also needs those to access the registry,
// so it can get remote object reference of the server
import java.rmi.registry.LocateRegistry;
import java.rmi.registry.Registry;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Client {
    private Client() {
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // normally, the address of the server is passed here on the command line as an
        // argument
        // we get that address from args[0] if provided, else we use null for localhost
        String host = (args.length < 1) ? null : args[0];
        String name = "Hello";

        try (Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);) {

            // get the registry from host(server)
            Registry registry = LocateRegistry.getRegistry(host);

            // look up the remote object by name in the registry
            // stub is the a reference to the remote object
            Hello stub = (Hello) registry.lookup(name);
            String response = stub.sayHello();
            System.out.println("response: " + response);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Client exception: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}