io.netty.channel

Interface ChannelInboundMessageHandler<I>

All Known Implementing Classes:

Base64Decoder, ByteArrayDecoder, ChannelInboundMessageHandlerAdapter, HttpContentCompressor, HttpContentDecoder, HttpContentDecompressor, HttpContentEncoder, HttpObjectAggregator, MessageLoggingHandler, MessageToMessageCodec, MessageToMessageDecoder, ProtobufDecoder, SctpInboundByteStreamHandler, SctpMessageCompletionHandler, SctpMessageToMessageDecoder, SpdyHttpCodec, SpdyHttpDecoder, SpdyHttpResponseStreamIdHandler, SpdySessionHandler, StringDecoder, WebSocketServerProtocolHandler, WebSocketServerProtocolHandshakeHandler

public interface ChannelInboundMessageHandler<I>

Special ChannelInboundHandler which store the inbound data in a MessageBuf for futher processing. If your ChannelOutboundMessageHandler handles messages of type ByteBuf or Object and you want to add a ByteBuf to the next buffer in the ChannelPipeline use ChannelHandlerUtil.addToNextInboundBuffer(ChannelHandlerContext, Object).

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface io.netty.channel.ChannelHandler

ChannelHandler.Sharable

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	freeInboundBuffer(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) Invoked when this handler is not going to receive any inbound message anymore and thus it's safe to deallocate its inbound buffer.
MessageBuf<I>	newInboundBuffer(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) Return the MessageBuf which will be used for inbound data to store.

Methods inherited from interface io.netty.channel.ChannelStateHandler

channelActive, channelInactive, channelReadSuspended, channelRegistered, channelUnregistered, inboundBufferUpdated, userEventTriggered

Methods inherited from interface io.netty.channel.ChannelHandler

afterAdd, afterRemove, beforeAdd, beforeRemove, exceptionCaught

Method Detail

newInboundBuffer

MessageBuf<I> newInboundBuffer(ChannelHandlerContext ctx)
                               throws Exception

Return the MessageBuf which will be used for inbound data to store.

Throws:

Exception

freeInboundBuffer

void freeInboundBuffer(ChannelHandlerContext ctx)
                       throws Exception

Invoked when this handler is not going to receive any inbound message anymore and thus it's safe to deallocate its inbound buffer.

Throws:

Exception