org.simpleframework.transport.connect
Interface Connection

All Superinterfaces:

Closeable

All Known Implementing Classes:

SocketConnection

public interface Connection
extends Closeable

The Connection object is used to manage connections from a server socket. In order to achieve this it spawns a task to listen for incoming connect requests. When a TCP connection request arrives it hands off the SocketChannel to the SocketProcessor which processes the request.

This handles connections from a ServerSocketChannel object so that features such as SSL can be used by a server that uses this package. The background acceptor process will terminate if the connection is closed.

Author:

Niall Gallagher

See Also:

SocketProcessor

Method Summary

SocketAddress	connect(SocketAddress address) This creates a new background task that will listen to the specified ServerAddress for incoming TCP connect requests.
SocketAddress	connect(SocketAddress address, SSLContext context) This creates a new background task that will listen to the specified ServerAddress for incoming TCP connect requests.

Methods inherited from interface java.io.Closeable

close

Method Detail

connect

SocketAddress connect(SocketAddress address)
                      throws IOException

This creates a new background task that will listen to the specified ServerAddress for incoming TCP connect requests. When an connection is accepted it is handed to the internal Server implementation as a pipeline. The background task is a non daemon task to ensure the server is kept active, to terminate the connection this can be closed.

Parameters:

address - this is the address used to accept connections

Returns:

this returns the actual local address that is used

Throws:

IOException

connect

SocketAddress connect(SocketAddress address,
                      SSLContext context)
                      throws IOException

This creates a new background task that will listen to the specified ServerAddress for incoming TCP connect requests. When an connection is accepted it is handed to the internal Server implementation as a pipeline. The background task is a non daemon task to ensure the server is kept active, to terminate the connection this can be closed.

Parameters:

address - this is the address used to accept connections

context - this is used for secure SSL connections

Returns:

this returns the actual local address that is used

Throws:

IOException