Issues connecting bot to IRC Server

[Tasemu 1]

Hi, i have a version of an IRC class made by Roma that I have modified slightly. It appears I am able to connect to the server fine, however I never see my bot join the channel. Could anyone help me out with some advice on getting this working please? It would help so much!

I noticed it was not connecting and first and on inspection the server appeared to be pinging me with a hash, i replied with PONG and the same hash and now I can connect to the server. However joining the channel is still eluding me.

package tools;

import org.dreambot.api.Client;
import org.dreambot.api.methods.MethodContext;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * Created by Roma on 21.11.2015
 *
 */
public class IRCConnection
        extends Thread {

    BufferedWriter writer;
    private String server = "irc.SwiftIRC.net";
    Socket socket;
    private boolean running = true;

    private ArrayList<IRCListener> listeners;
    private String username;
    private String channel;
    private String channelPassword;

    public IRCConnection(String channel) {
        this.listeners = new ArrayList<>();
        this.channel = channel;
        this.username = generateIRCName();
        this.channelPassword = "";
    }

    public IRCConnection(String channel, String channelPassword) {
        this.listeners = new ArrayList<>();
        this.channel = channel;
        this.username = generateIRCName();
        this.channelPassword = channelPassword;
    }

    public IRCConnection(String username, String channel, String channelPassword){
        this.listeners = new ArrayList<>();
        this.username = username;
        this.channel = channel;
        this.channelPassword = channelPassword;
    }

    public IRCConnection(String server, String username, String channel, String channelPassword){
        this.listeners = new ArrayList<>();
        this.channel = channel;
        this.username = username;
        this.server = server;
        this.channelPassword = channelPassword;
    }

    @Override
    public void run(){
        try {
            MethodContext.log("Trying to connect to IRC Server");
            socket = new Socket(server, 6667);
            writer = new BufferedWriter(
                    new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream()));
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));

            writer.write("NICK " + username + "\r\n");
            writer.write("USER " + username + " 8 * : IRC bot\r\n");
            writer.flush();

            MethodContext.log("Connected to server");

            final long timeout = System.currentTimeMillis() + 10000;

            String line;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                MethodContext.log("beep");
                if (System.currentTimeMillis() >= timeout) {
                    MethodContext.log("Connection timed out");
                    break;
                }
                if (line.contains("004")) {
                    break;
                } else if (line.contains("433")) {
                    MethodContext.log("Nickname is already in use");
                    return;
                } else if (line.contains("PING")) {
                    MethodContext.log("Sending: " + line.replaceAll("\\bPING\\b", "PONG"));
                    writer.write(line.replaceAll("\\bPING\\b", "PONG"));
                    break;
                }
            }

            MethodContext.log("Finished line loop");

            writer.write("JOIN " + channel + " " + channelPassword + "\r\n");
            MethodContext.log("Writing: JOIN " + channel + " " + channelPassword + "\r\n");
            writer.flush();

            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                if(!running)
                    break;

                if(line.contains("PING ")) {
                    writer.write("PONG " + line.substring(5) + "\n");
                    writer.flush();
                } else {
                    MethodContext.log(line);
                }
            }
        } catch(Exception e) {
            MethodContext.logError(e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void addListener(IRCListener ircListener) { listeners.add(ircListener); }

    public void removeListener(IRCListener ircListener) { listeners.remove(ircListener); }

    private void addTrigger(IRCMessage message){
        for (IRCListener listener : listeners)
            listener.messageReceived(message);
    }

    public void closeConnection() {
        MethodContext.log("Closing connection");
        while (!socket.isClosed()) {
            try {
                socket.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        running = false;

        MethodContext.log("Connection closed");
    }

    private void send(String buffer) {
        try {
            this.writer.write(buffer);
            this.writer.flush();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void sendChannelMessage(String message) { this.send("PRIVMSG " + this.channel + " :" + message + "\n"); }

    public void sendPrivateMessage(String name, String message) { this.send("PRIVMSG " + name + " :" + message + "\n"); }

    public void sendNotice(String target, String message) { this.send("NOTICE " + target + " :" + message + "\n"); }

    private String getRSN() {
        return Client.getClient().getLocalPlayer().getName();
    }

    private String generateIRCName() {
        String outputName;
        int t = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < getRSN().length(); i++) {
            if(Character.isDigit(getRSN().charAt(i)))
                t++;
            else
                break;
        }
        outputName = getRSN().substring(t);

        if (outputName.contains(" "))
            outputName = outputName.replaceAll(" ", "_");

        return outputName;
    }
}