io.nadron.communication

Interface MessageSender

All Known Subinterfaces:

MessageSender.Fast, MessageSender.Reliable

All Known Implementing Classes:

NettyTCPMessageSender, NettyUDPMessageSender

public interface MessageSender

This interface declares method for sending a message to client. Different implementations would be used by the server for sending based on the delivery guaranty that is required.

Author:

Abraham Menacherry

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static interface	MessageSender.Fast An interface whose implementations would transmit messages fast but unreliably to the remote machine/vm.
static interface	MessageSender.Reliable An interface whose implementations would transmit messages reliably to the remote machine/vm.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	close() Since message sender would have a network connection, it would require some cleanup.
DeliveryGuaranty	getDeliveryGuaranty() Returns the delivery guaranty of the implementation.
Object	sendMessage(Object message) This method delegates to the underlying native session object to send a message to the client.

Method Detail

sendMessage

Object sendMessage(Object message)

This method delegates to the underlying native session object to send a message to the client.

Parameters:

message - The message to be sent to client.

Returns:

The boolean or future associated with this operation if synchronous or asynchronous implementation respectively.

getDeliveryGuaranty

DeliveryGuaranty getDeliveryGuaranty()

Returns the delivery guaranty of the implementation. Currently only RELIABLE and FAST are supported, their respective integer values are 0 and 1.

Returns:

The guaranty instance associated with the implementation.

close

void close()

Since message sender would have a network connection, it would require some cleanup. This method can be overriden to close underlying channels and so on.