org.apache.activemq.broker.region.policy
Interface MessageEvictionStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

MessageEvictionStrategySupport, OldestMessageEvictionStrategy, OldestMessageWithLowestPriorityEvictionStrategy, UniquePropertyMessageEvictionStrategy

public interface MessageEvictionStrategy

A strategy for evicting messages from slow consumers.

Method Summary

MessageReference[]	evictMessages(LinkedList messages) Find the message reference in the given list with oldest messages at the front and newer messages at the end
int	getEvictExpiredMessagesHighWatermark() REturns the high water mark on which we will eagerly evict expired messages from RAM

Method Detail

evictMessages

MessageReference[] evictMessages(LinkedList messages)
                                 throws IOException

Find the message reference in the given list with oldest messages at the front and newer messages at the end

Returns:

the message that has been evicted.

Throws:

IOException - if an exception occurs such as reading a message content (but should not ever happen as usually all the messages will be in RAM when this method is called).

getEvictExpiredMessagesHighWatermark

int getEvictExpiredMessagesHighWatermark()

REturns the high water mark on which we will eagerly evict expired messages from RAM