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package io.netty.handler.codec;
import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandler;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelPromise;
import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
import io.netty.util.internal.TypeParameterMatcher;
/**
* {@link ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter} which encodes message in a stream-like fashion from one message to an
* {@link ByteBuf}.
*
*
* Example implementation which encodes {@link Integer}s to a {@link ByteBuf}.
*
*
* public class IntegerEncoder extends {@link MessageToByteEncoder}<{@link Integer}> {
* {@code @Override}
* public void encode({@link ChannelHandlerContext} ctx, {@link Integer} msg, {@link ByteBuf} out)
* throws {@link Exception} {
* out.writeInt(msg);
* }
* }
*
*/
public abstract class MessageToByteEncoder extends ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter {
private final TypeParameterMatcher matcher;
private final boolean preferDirect;
/**
* see {@link #MessageToByteEncoder(boolean)} with {@code true} as boolean parameter.
*/
protected MessageToByteEncoder() {
this(true);
}
/**
* see {@link #MessageToByteEncoder(Class, boolean)} with {@code true} as boolean value.
*/
protected MessageToByteEncoder(Class outboundMessageType) {
this(outboundMessageType, true);
}
/**
* Create a new instance which will try to detect the types to match out of the type parameter of the class.
*
* @param preferDirect {@code true} if a direct {@link ByteBuf} should be tried to be used as target for
* the encoded messages. If {@code false} is used it will allocate a heap
* {@link ByteBuf}, which is backed by an byte array.
*/
protected MessageToByteEncoder(boolean preferDirect) {
matcher = TypeParameterMatcher.find(this, MessageToByteEncoder.class, "I");
this.preferDirect = preferDirect;
}
/**
* Create a new instance
*
* @param outboundMessageType The type of messages to match
* @param preferDirect {@code true} if a direct {@link ByteBuf} should be tried to be used as target for
* the encoded messages. If {@code false} is used it will allocate a heap
* {@link ByteBuf}, which is backed by an byte array.
*/
protected MessageToByteEncoder(Class outboundMessageType, boolean preferDirect) {
matcher = TypeParameterMatcher.get(outboundMessageType);
this.preferDirect = preferDirect;
}
/**
* Returns {@code true} if the given message should be handled. If {@code false} it will be passed to the next
* {@link ChannelOutboundHandler} in the {@link ChannelPipeline}.
*/
public boolean acceptOutboundMessage(Object msg) throws Exception {
return matcher.match(msg);
}
@Override
public void write(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg, ChannelPromise promise) throws Exception {
ByteBuf buf = null;
try {
if (acceptOutboundMessage(msg)) {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
I cast = (I) msg;
buf = allocateBuffer(ctx, cast, preferDirect);
try {
encode(ctx, cast, buf);
} finally {
ReferenceCountUtil.release(cast);
}
if (buf.isReadable()) {
ctx.write(buf, promise);
} else {
buf.release();
ctx.write(Unpooled.EMPTY_BUFFER, promise);
}
buf = null;
} else {
ctx.write(msg, promise);
}
} catch (EncoderException e) {
throw e;
} catch (Throwable e) {
throw new EncoderException(e);
} finally {
if (buf != null) {
buf.release();
}
}
}
/**
* Allocate a {@link ByteBuf} which will be used as argument of {@link #encode(ChannelHandlerContext, I, ByteBuf)}.
* Sub-classes may override this method to return {@link ByteBuf} with a perfect matching {@code initialCapacity}.
*/
protected ByteBuf allocateBuffer(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, @SuppressWarnings("unused") I msg,
boolean preferDirect) throws Exception {
if (preferDirect) {
return ctx.alloc().ioBuffer();
} else {
return ctx.alloc().heapBuffer();
}
}
/**
* Encode a message into a {@link ByteBuf}. This method will be called for each written message that can be handled
* by this encoder.
*
* @param ctx the {@link ChannelHandlerContext} which this {@link MessageToByteEncoder} belongs to
* @param msg the message to encode
* @param out the {@link ByteBuf} into which the encoded message will be written
* @throws Exception is thrown if an error occurs
*/
protected abstract void encode(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, I msg, ByteBuf out) throws Exception;
protected boolean isPreferDirect() {
return preferDirect;
}
}