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20 package org.apache.mina.filter.codec.demux;
21
22 import org.apache.mina.core.buffer.IoBuffer;
23 import org.apache.mina.core.session.IoSession;
24 import org.apache.mina.filter.codec.ProtocolDecoderOutput;
25
26 /**
27 * Decodes a certain type of messages.
28 * <p>
29 * We didn't provide any <tt>dispose</tt> method for {@link MessageDecoder}
30 * because it can give you performance penalty in case you have a lot of
31 * message types to handle.
32 *
33 * @author The Apache MINA Project (dev@mina.apache.org)
34 *
35 * @see DemuxingProtocolDecoder
36 * @see MessageDecoderFactory
37 */
38 public interface MessageDecoder {
39 /**
40 * Represents a result from {@link #decodable(IoSession, IoBuffer)} and
41 * {@link #decode(IoSession, IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)}. Please
42 * refer to each method's documentation for detailed explanation.
43 */
44 static MessageDecoderResult OK = MessageDecoderResult.OK;
45
46 /**
47 * Represents a result from {@link #decodable(IoSession, IoBuffer)} and
48 * {@link #decode(IoSession, IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)}. Please
49 * refer to each method's documentation for detailed explanation.
50 */
51 static MessageDecoderResult NEED_DATA = MessageDecoderResult.NEED_DATA;
52
53 /**
54 * Represents a result from {@link #decodable(IoSession, IoBuffer)} and
55 * {@link #decode(IoSession, IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)}. Please
56 * refer to each method's documentation for detailed explanation.
57 */
58 static MessageDecoderResult NOT_OK = MessageDecoderResult.NOT_OK;
59
60 /**
61 * Checks the specified buffer is decodable by this decoder.
62 *
63 * @return {@link #OK} if this decoder can decode the specified buffer.
64 * {@link #NOT_OK} if this decoder cannot decode the specified buffer.
65 * {@link #NEED_DATA} if more data is required to determine if the
66 * specified buffer is decodable ({@link #OK}) or not decodable
67 * {@link #NOT_OK}.
68 */
69 MessageDecoderResult decodable(IoSession session, IoBuffer in);
70
71 /**
72 * Decodes binary or protocol-specific content into higher-level message objects.
73 * MINA invokes {@link #decode(IoSession, IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)}
74 * method with read data, and then the decoder implementation puts decoded
75 * messages into {@link ProtocolDecoderOutput}.
76 *
77 * @return {@link #OK} if you finished decoding messages successfully.
78 * {@link #NEED_DATA} if you need more data to finish decoding current message.
79 * {@link #NOT_OK} if you cannot decode current message due to protocol specification violation.
80 *
81 * @throws Exception if the read data violated protocol specification
82 */
83 MessageDecoderResult decode(IoSession session, IoBuffer in,
84 ProtocolDecoderOutput out) throws Exception;
85
86 /**
87 * Invoked when the specified <tt>session</tt> is closed while this decoder was
88 * parsing the data. This method is useful when you deal with the protocol which doesn't
89 * specify the length of a message such as HTTP response without <tt>content-length</tt>
90 * header. Implement this method to process the remaining data that
91 * {@link #decode(IoSession, IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)} method didn't process
92 * completely.
93 *
94 * @throws Exception if the read data violated protocol specification
95 */
96 void finishDecode(IoSession session, ProtocolDecoderOutput out)
97 throws Exception;
98 }