ByteBufferUtil.java

/*
 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
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 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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package org.jboss.netty.util.internal;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

/**
 * This is fork of ElasticSearch's ByteBufferAllocator.Cleaner class
 */
public final class ByteBufferUtil {
    private static final boolean CLEAN_SUPPORTED;
    private static final Method directBufferCleaner;
    private static final Method directBufferCleanerClean;

    static {
        Method directBufferCleanerX = null;
        Method directBufferCleanerCleanX = null;
        boolean v;
        try {
            directBufferCleanerX = Class.forName("java.nio.DirectByteBuffer").getMethod("cleaner");
            directBufferCleanerX.setAccessible(true);
            directBufferCleanerCleanX = Class.forName("sun.misc.Cleaner").getMethod("clean");
            directBufferCleanerCleanX.setAccessible(true);
            v = true;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            v = false;
        }
        CLEAN_SUPPORTED = v;
        directBufferCleaner = directBufferCleanerX;
        directBufferCleanerClean = directBufferCleanerCleanX;
    }

    /**
     * Destroy the given {@link ByteBuffer} if possible
     */
    public static void destroy(ByteBuffer buffer) {
        if (CLEAN_SUPPORTED && buffer.isDirect()) {
            try {
                Object cleaner = directBufferCleaner.invoke(buffer);
                directBufferCleanerClean.invoke(cleaner);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // silently ignore exception
            }
        }
    }

    private ByteBufferUtil() {
        // Utility class
    }
}