ByteBufAllocator.java

/*
 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
 *
 * The Netty Project 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
 *
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package info.jerrinot.nettyloc;

/**
 * Implementations are responsible to allocate buffers. Implementations of this interface are expected to be
 * thread-safe.
 */
public interface ByteBufAllocator {


    /**
     * Allocate a direct {@link ByteBuf} with the given capacity.
     */
    ByteBuf directBuffer(int capacity);


}