/*
* Quasar: lightweight threads and actors for the JVM.
* Copyright (c) 2013-2015, Parallel Universe Software Co. All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are dual-licensed under
* either the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 as published by
* the Eclipse Foundation
*
* or (per the licensee's choosing)
*
* under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.0
* as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*/
package co.paralleluniverse.strands.channels;
/**
* A common interface for standard channel implementations
* @author pron
*/
public interface StandardChannel<Message> extends Channel<Message> {
/**
* The channel's internal buffer capacity.
* @return the channel's internal buffer capacity, {@code -1} for an unbounded buffer, and {@code 0} for a transfer channel.
*/
int capacity();
/**
* Whether or not the channel supports a single producer only.
* @return {@code true} if the channel supports no more than one producer; {@code false} otherwise.
*/
boolean isSingleProducer();
/**
* Whether or not the channel supports a single consumer only.
* @return {@code true} if the channel supports no more than one consumer; {@code false} otherwise.
*/
boolean isSingleConsumer();
}