org.simpleframework.transport
Interface Sender

All Known Implementing Classes:

TransportSender

public interface Sender

The Sender object is used to send data over the TCP transport. This provides direct contact with the connected socket. Delivery over a sender implementation can be either SSL based or direct. It is the responsibility of the implementation to provide such behavior as required.

Author:

Niall Gallagher

Method Summary

void	close() This is used to close the sender and the underlying transport.
void	flush() This method is used to flush the contents of the buffer to the client.
void	send(byte[] array) This method is used to deliver the provided array of bytes to the underlying transport.
void	send(byte[] array, int off, int len) This method is used to deliver the provided array of bytes to the underlying transport.
void	send(ByteBuffer buffer) This method is used to deliver the provided buffer of bytes to the underlying transport.
void	send(ByteBuffer buffer, int off, int len) This method is used to deliver the provided buffer of bytes to the underlying transport.

Method Detail

send

void send(byte[] array)
          throws IOException

This method is used to deliver the provided array of bytes to the underlying transport. Depending on the connection type the array may be encoded for SSL transport or send directly. Any implementation may choose to buffer the bytes for performance.

Parameters:

array - this is the array of bytes to send to the client

Throws:

IOException

send

void send(byte[] array,
          int off,
          int len)
          throws IOException

This method is used to deliver the provided array of bytes to the underlying transport. Depending on the connection type the array may be encoded for SSL transport or send directly. Any implementation may choose to buffer the bytes for performance.

Parameters:

array - this is the array of bytes to send to the client

off - this is the offset within the array to send from

len - this is the number of bytes that are to be sent

Throws:

IOException

send

void send(ByteBuffer buffer)
          throws IOException

This method is used to deliver the provided buffer of bytes to the underlying transport. Depending on the connection type the array may be encoded for SSL transport or send directly. Any implementation may choose to buffer the bytes for performance.

Parameters:

buffer - this is the buffer of bytes to send to the client

Throws:

IOException

send

void send(ByteBuffer buffer,
          int off,
          int len)
          throws IOException

This method is used to deliver the provided buffer of bytes to the underlying transport. Depending on the connection type the array may be encoded for SSL transport or send directly. Any implementation may choose to buffer the bytes for performance.

Parameters:

buffer - this is the buffer of bytes to send to the client

off - this is the offset within the buffer to send from

len - this is the number of bytes that are to be sent

Throws:

IOException

flush

void flush()
           throws IOException

This method is used to flush the contents of the buffer to the client. This method will block until such time as all of the data has been sent to the client. If at any point there is an error sending the content an exception is thrown.

Throws:

IOException

close

void close()
           throws IOException

This is used to close the sender and the underlying transport. If a close is performed on the sender then no more bytes can be read from or written to the transport and the client will received a connection close on their side.

Throws:

IOException