org.glassfish.grizzly.asyncqueue

Interface WritableMessage

All Known Subinterfaces:

Buffer

All Known Implementing Classes:

BuffersBuffer, ByteBufferManager.SmallByteBufferWrapper, ByteBufferWrapper, CompositeBuffer, FileTransfer, HeapBuffer

public interface WritableMessage

Common interface for entities that may be written to a Channel.

Since:

2.2

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	hasRemaining() Return true if this message has data remaining to be written.
boolean	isExternal() Returns true if the message represents an external resource (for example FileTransfer), which is not loaded in memory.
boolean	release() Perform message specific actions to release resources held by the entity backing this WritableMessage.
int	remaining() Return the number of bytes remaining to be written.

Method Detail

hasRemaining

boolean hasRemaining()

Return true if this message has data remaining to be written.

Returns:

true if this message has data remaining to be written.

remaining

int remaining()

Return the number of bytes remaining to be written.

Returns:

the number of bytes remaining to be written.

release

boolean release()

Perform message specific actions to release resources held by the entity backing this WritableMessage.

Returns:

true if successfully released

isExternal

boolean isExternal()

Returns true if the message represents an external resource (for example FileTransfer), which is not loaded in memory.

Returns:

False, if the message is located in memory (like Buffer).