1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 17 * under the License. 18 * 19 */ 20 package org.apache.mina.filter.codec; 21 22 import org.apache.mina.core.session.IoSession; 23 24 /** 25 * Provides {@link ProtocolEncoder} and {@link ProtocolDecoder} which translates 26 * binary or protocol specific data into message object and vice versa. 27 * <p> 28 * Please refer to 29 * <a href="../../../../../xref-examples/org/apache/mina/examples/reverser/ReverseProtocolProvider.html"><code>ReverserProtocolProvider</code></a> 30 * example. 31 * 32 * @author The Apache MINA Project (dev@mina.apache.org) 33 * @version $Rev: 671827 $, $Date: 2008-06-26 10:49:48 +0200 (jeu, 26 jun 2008) $ 34 */ 35 public interface ProtocolCodecFactory { 36 /** 37 * Returns a new (or reusable) instance of {@link ProtocolEncoder} which 38 * encodes message objects into binary or protocol-specific data. 39 */ 40 ProtocolEncoder getEncoder(IoSession session) throws Exception; 41 42 /** 43 * Returns a new (or reusable) instance of {@link ProtocolDecoder} which 44 * decodes binary or protocol-specific data into message objects. 45 */ 46 ProtocolDecoder getDecoder(IoSession session) throws Exception; 47 }