org.cojen.dirmi.core

Interface InvocationInput

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Closeable, DataInput, ObjectInput

All Known Implementing Classes:

InvocationInputStream

public interface InvocationInput
extends ObjectInput, Closeable

Interface describing the low-level input operations used by remote method invocation.

Author:

Brian S O'Neill

See Also:

InvocationOutput

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	readObject() Reads a sharable Serializable or Remote object.
Throwable	readThrowable() If remote exception cannot be represented by a local exception class or it cannot be serialized, it is represented as a RemoteException instead, with as much useful information as possible, including server stack trace.
Object	readUnshared() Reads an unshared Serializable or Remote object.
String	readUnsharedString() Reads the length and of contents the String from a packed format similar to UTF-8.

Methods inherited from interface java.io.ObjectInput

available, close, read, read, read, skip

Methods inherited from interface java.io.DataInput

readBoolean, readByte, readChar, readDouble, readFloat, readFully, readFully, readInt, readLine, readLong, readShort, readUnsignedByte, readUnsignedShort, readUTF, skipBytes

Methods inherited from interface java.io.Closeable

close

Method Detail

readUnsharedString

String readUnsharedString()
                   throws IOException

Reads the length and of contents the String from a packed format similar to UTF-8.

Throws:

IOException

readUnshared

Object readUnshared()
             throws IOException,
                    ClassNotFoundException

Reads an unshared Serializable or Remote object.

Throws:

IOException

ClassNotFoundException

readObject

Object readObject()
           throws IOException,
                  ClassNotFoundException

Reads a sharable Serializable or Remote object.

Specified by:

readObject in interface ObjectInput

Throws:

IOException

ClassNotFoundException

readThrowable

Throwable readThrowable()
                 throws IOException,
                        ReconstructedException

If remote exception cannot be represented by a local exception class or it cannot be serialized, it is represented as a RemoteException instead, with as much useful information as possible, including server stack trace.

Throws:

IOException

ReconstructedException