/*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license
* agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding
* copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
* "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a
* copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License
* is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
* or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
* the License.
*/
package org.apache.geode.distributed.internal;
import org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.membership.*;
/**
* A marker interface that denotes {@link DistributionMessage}s that require a reply. Messages that
* do not implement this interface can be sent asynchronously through the transport layer.
*
*
* @since GemFire 3.0
*/
public interface MessageWithReply {
/**
* Returns the id of the {@link org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.ReplyProcessor21} that is
* used to handle the reply to this message.
*/
public int getProcessorId();
/**
* Returns the id the sender who is waiting for a reply.
*/
public InternalDistributedMember getSender();
}