org.simpleframework.transport
Interface TransportProcessor

public interface TransportProcessor

This is the TransportProcessor used to process the provided transport in a higher layer. It is the responsibility of the delegate to handle protocols and message processing. In the case of HTTP this will process requests for a container. The transport provided can be either a direct transport or provide some form of secure encoding such as SSL.

Author:

Niall Gallagher

See Also:

Transport

Method Summary

void	process(Transport transport) This is used to process a Transport instance in a higher layer that can handle a protocol.
void	stop() This method is used to stop the TransportProcessor such that it will accept no more pipelines.

Method Detail

process

void process(Transport transport)
             throws IOException

This is used to process a Transport instance in a higher layer that can handle a protocol. A transport can be a direct transport or a secure transport providing SSL. At this point any SSL handshake will have already completed.

Typical usage of this method is to accept multiple transport objects, each representing a unique TCP channel to the client, and process requests from those transports concurrently.

Parameters:

transport - the transport to process requests from

Throws:

IOException

stop

void stop()
          throws IOException

This method is used to stop the TransportProcessor such that it will accept no more pipelines. Stopping the connector ensures that all resources occupied will be released. This is required so that all threads are stopped and released.

Typically this method is called once all connections to the server have been stopped. As a final act of shutting down the entire server all threads must be stopped, this allows collection of unused memory and the closing of file and socket resources.

Throws:

IOException