NiftyIODispatcher.java

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package com.facebook.nifty.core;

import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelEvent;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelDownstreamHandler;

/**
 * Dispatches downstream messages from the worker threads to the IO threads,
 * so that code in IO threads do not have to worry about downstream paths
 * being invoked from multiple threads.
 */
public class NiftyIODispatcher extends SimpleChannelDownstreamHandler {

    @Override
    public void handleDownstream(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ChannelEvent e) throws Exception {
        ctx.getPipeline().execute(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    NiftyIODispatcher.super.handleDownstream(ctx, e);
                }
                catch (Exception ex) {
                    Channels.fireExceptionCaught(ctx.getChannel(), ex);
                }
            }
        });
    }
}