/*
* ByteWriter.java February 2007
*
* Copyright (C) 2007, Niall Gallagher <niallg@users.sf.net>
*
* Licensed 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.simpleframework.transport;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
/**
* The <code>ByteWriter</code> object is used to send data over the TCP
* transport. This provides direct contact with the connected socket.
* Delivery over a sender implementation can be either SSL based or
* direct. It is the responsibility of the implementation to provide
* such behavior as required.
*
* @author Niall Gallagher
*/
public interface ByteWriter {
/**
* This method is used to deliver the provided array of bytes to
* the underlying transport. Depending on the connection type the
* array may be encoded for SSL transport or send directly. Any
* implementation may choose to buffer the bytes for performance.
*
* @param array this is the array of bytes to send to the client
*/
void write(byte[] array) throws IOException;
/**
* This method is used to deliver the provided array of bytes to
* the underlying transport. Depending on the connection type the
* array may be encoded for SSL transport or send directly. Any
* implementation may choose to buffer the bytes for performance.
*
* @param array this is the array of bytes to send to the client
* @param off this is the offset within the array to send from
* @param len this is the number of bytes that are to be sent
*/
void write(byte[] array, int off, int len) throws IOException;
/**
* This method is used to deliver the provided buffer of bytes to
* the underlying transport. Depending on the connection type the
* array may be encoded for SSL transport or send directly. Any
* implementation may choose to buffer the bytes for performance.
*
* @param buffer this is the buffer of bytes to send to the client
*/
void write(ByteBuffer buffer) throws IOException;
/**
* This method is used to deliver the provided buffer of bytes to
* the underlying transport. Depending on the connection type the
* array may be encoded for SSL transport or send directly. Any
* implementation may choose to buffer the bytes for performance.
*
* @param buffer this is the buffer of bytes to send to the client
* @param off this is the offset within the buffer to send from
* @param len this is the number of bytes that are to be sent
*/
void write(ByteBuffer buffer, int off, int len) throws IOException;
/**
* This method is used to flush the contents of the buffer to
* the client. This method will block until such time as all of
* the data has been sent to the client. If at any point there
* is an error sending the content an exception is thrown.
*/
void flush() throws IOException;
/**
* This is used to close the sender and the underlying transport.
* If a close is performed on the sender then no more bytes can
* be read from or written to the transport and the client will
* received a connection close on their side.
*/
void close() throws IOException;
}