ReferenceCounted (The Adobe Experience Manager SDK 2020.9.4277.20200929T030741Z-200924)

All Known Subinterfaces:

AsyncConnection, AsyncConnectionSource, AsyncReadBinding, AsyncReadWriteBinding, AsyncWriteBinding, Connection, ConnectionSource, ReadBinding, ReadWriteBinding, WriteBinding

All Known Implementing Classes:

AsyncClusterBinding, AsyncSingleConnectionReadBinding, ClusterBinding, DefaultServerConnection, SingleConnectionReadBinding, SingleServerBinding
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public interface ReferenceCounted
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An interface for reference-counted objects.

Since:

3.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`int`	`getCount()`	Gets the current reference count, which starts at 0.
`void`	`release()`	Release a reference to this object.
`ReferenceCounted`	`retain()`	Retain an additional reference to this object.

- Method Detail
  - getCount
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int getCount()
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    Gets the current reference count, which starts at 0.
    
    Returns:
    
    the current count, which must be greater than or equal to 0
  - retain
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ReferenceCounted retain()
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    Retain an additional reference to this object. All retained references must be released, or there will be a leak.
    
    Returns:
    
    this
  - release
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void release()
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    Release a reference to this object.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.IllegalStateException - if the reference count is already 0