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 * Copyright (c) 2008-2024, Hazelcast, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package com.hazelcast.internal.networking;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;

/**
 * The Networking is an abstraction responsible for lower level networking services.
 *
 * Networking is based on a set of registered channel and
 *
 * The default implementation of this is { NioNetworking} that relies on
 * selectors. But also different implementations can be added like spinning,
 * thread per connection, epoll, UDP based etc.
 *
 *  NioNetworking
 */
public interface Networking {

    /**
     * Registers the SocketChannel and returns the created Channel.
     *
     * The Channel is not yet started so that modifications can be made to the
     * channel e.g. adding attributes. Once this is done the { Channel#start()}
     * needs to be called.
     *
     * In the future we need to think about passing the socket channel because
     * it binds Networking to tcp and this is not desirable.
     *
     * @param channelInitializer initializer for the Channel
     * @param socketChannel      the socketChannel to register
     * @param clientMode         if the channel is made in clientMode or server mode
     * @return the created Channel
     * @throws IOException           when something failed while registering the
     *                               socketChannel
     * @throws IllegalStateException if Networking isn't running.
     */
    Channel register(ChannelInitializer channelInitializer,
                     SocketChannel socketChannel,
                     boolean clientMode) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Restarts Networking.
     *
     * This method can be called when the Networking is started for the first time.
     *
     * But can also be called after { #shutdown()} has been completed. This is useful if you
     * temporarily want to disable networking (e.g. dealing with merging). You should not call this
     * method when the Networking is still running; first you need to call { #shutdown()}.
     *
     * @throws IllegalStateException if Networking already is running.
     */
    void restart();

    /**
     * Shuts down Networking and closes all registered channels.
     *
     * Shutting down doesn't need to be a permanent state. It could be that for e.g. cluster merge, the
     * networking is temporarily shutdown and later restarted.
     *
     * Shutdown can safely be called multiple times. The first time the Networking will be shutdown and the
     * rest of the calls it will be ignored.
     */
    void shutdown();
}