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package javax.websocket;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
/**
* The RemoteEndpoint object is supplied by the container and represents the 'other end' or peer of the Web Socket
* conversation. Instances of the RemoteEndpoint are obtained from the Session using {@link Session#getBasicRemote()} or
* {@link Session#getAsyncRemote()}. Objects of this kind include numerous ways to send web socket messages. There are
* two kinds of RemoteEndpoint objects: RemoteEndpoint.Basic for synchronous sending of websocket messages, and
* RemoteEndpoint.Async for sending messages asynchronously.
*
*
* There is no guarantee of the successful delivery of a web socket message to the peer, but if the action of sending a
* message causes an error known to the container, the API throws it. RemoteEndpoints include a variety of ways to send
* messages: by whole message, in parts, and in various data formats including websocket pings and pongs.
*
*
* Implementations may or may not support batching of messages. More detail of the expected semantics of implementations
* that do support batching are laid out in {@link RemoteEndpoint#setBatchingAllowed(boolean)}.
*
*
* Note: Implementations may choose their own schemes for sending large messages in smaller parts. These schemes may or
* may not bear a relationship to the underlying websocket dataframes in which the message is ultimately sent on the
* wire.
*
*
* If the underlying connection is closed and methods on the RemoteEndpoint are attempted to be called, they will result
* in an error being generated. For the methods that send messages, this will be an IOException, for the methods that
* alter configuration of the endpoint, this will be runtime IllegalArgumentExceptions.
*
* @author dannycoward
*/
public interface RemoteEndpoint {
/**
* Indicate to the implementation that it is allowed to batch outgoing messages before sending. Not all
* implementations support batching of outgoing messages. The default mode for RemoteEndpoints is false. If the
* developer has indicated that batching of outgoing messages is permitted, then the developer must call
* flushBatch() in order to be sure that all the messages passed into the send methods of this RemoteEndpoint are
* sent. When batching is allowed, the implementations send operations are considered to have completed if the
* message has been written to the local batch, in the case when there is still room in the batch for the message,
* and are considered to have completed if the batch has been send to the peer and the remainder written to the new
* batch, in the case when writing the message causes the batch to need to be sent. The blocking and asynchronous
* send methods use this notion of completion in order to complete blocking calls, notify SendHandlers and complete
* Futures respectively. When batching is allowed, if the developer has called send methods on this RemoteEndpoint
* without calling flushBatch(), then the implementation may not have sent all the messages the developer has asked
* to be sent. If the parameter value is false and the implementation has a batch of unsent messages, then the
* implementation must immediately send the batch of unsent messages.
*
* @param allowed whether the implementation is allowed to batch messages.
* @throws IOException if batching is being disabled and there are unsent messages this error may be thrown as the
* implementation sends the batch of unsent messages if there is a problem.
*/
void setBatchingAllowed(boolean allowed) throws IOException;
/**
* Return whether the implementation is allowed to batch outgoing messages before sending. The default mode for
* RemoteEndpoints is false. The value may be changed by calling {@link #setBatchingAllowed(boolean)
* setBatchingAllowed}.
*
* @return {@code true} if the implementation is allowed to batch outgoing messages before sending, otherwise
* {@code false}
*/
boolean getBatchingAllowed();
/**
* This method is only used when batching is allowed for this RemoteEndpint. Calling this method forces the
* implementation to send any unsent messages it has been batching.
*
* @throws IOException if the sending of any unsent messages failed
*/
void flushBatch() throws IOException;
/**
* Send a Ping message containing the given application data to the remote endpoint. The corresponding Pong message
* may be picked up using the MessageHandler.Pong handler.
*
* @param applicationData the data to be carried in the ping request.
* @throws IOException if the ping failed to be sent
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the applicationData exceeds the maximum allowed payload of 125 bytes
*/
void sendPing(ByteBuffer applicationData) throws IOException, IllegalArgumentException;
/**
* Allows the developer to send an unsolicited Pong message containing the given application data in order to serve
* as a unidirectional heartbeat for the session.
*
* @param applicationData the application data to be carried in the pong response.
* @throws IOException if the pong failed to be sent
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the applicationData exceeds the maximum allowed payload of 125 bytes
*/
void sendPong(ByteBuffer applicationData) throws IOException, IllegalArgumentException;
/**
* This representation of the peer of a web socket conversation has the ability to send messages asynchronously. The
* point of completion of the send is defined when all the supplied data has been written to the underlying
* connection. The completion handlers for the asynchronous methods are always called with a different thread from
* that which initiated the send.
*/
interface Async extends RemoteEndpoint {
/**
* Return the number of milliseconds the implementation will timeout attempting to send a websocket message. A
* non-positive number indicates the implementation will not timeout attempting to send a websocket message
* asynchronously. This value overrides the default value assigned in the WebSocketContainer.
*
* @return the timeout time in milliseconds.
*/
long getSendTimeout();
/**
* Sets the number of milliseconds the implementation will timeout attempting to send a websocket message. A
* non-positive number indicates the implementation will not timeout attempting to send a websocket message
* asynchronously. This value overrides the default value assigned in the WebSocketContainer.
*
* @param timeoutmillis The number of milliseconds this RemoteEndpoint will wait before timing out an incomplete
* asynchronous message send.
*/
void setSendTimeout(long timeoutmillis);
/**
* Initiates the asynchronous transmission of a text message. This method returns before the message is
* transmitted. Developers provide a callback to be notified when the message has been transmitted. Errors in
* transmission are given to the developer in the SendResult object.
*
* @param text the text being sent.
* @param handler the handler which will be notified of progress.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the text or the handler is {@code null}.
*/
void sendText(String text, SendHandler handler);
/**
* Initiates the asynchronous transmission of a text message. This method returns before the message is
* transmitted. Developers use the returned Future object to track progress of the transmission. The Future's
* get() method returns {@code null} upon successful completion. Errors in transmission are wrapped in the
* {@link java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException} thrown when querying the Future object.
*
* @param text the text being sent.
* @return the Future object representing the send operation.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the text is {@code null}.
*/
Future sendText(String text);
/**
* Initiates the asynchronous transmission of a binary message. This method returns before the message is
* transmitted. Developers use the returned Future object to track progress of the transmission. The Future's
* get() method returns {@code null} upon successful completion. Errors in transmission are wrapped in the
* {@link java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException} thrown when querying the Future object.
*
* @param data the data being sent.
* @return the Future object representing the send operation.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the data is {@code null}.
*/
Future sendBinary(ByteBuffer data);
/**
* Initiates the asynchronous transmission of a binary message. This method returns before the message is
* transmitted. Developers provide a callback to be notified when the message has been transmitted. Errors in
* transmission are given to the developer in the SendResult object.
*
* @param data the data being sent, must not be {@code null}.
* @param handler the handler that will be notified of progress, must not be {@code null}.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if either the data or the handler are {@code null}.
*/
void sendBinary(ByteBuffer data, SendHandler handler);
/**
* Initiates the asynchronous transmission of a custom developer object. The developer will have provided an
* encoder for this object type in the endpoint configuration. Containers will by default be able to encode java
* primitive types and their object equivalents, otherwise the developer must have provided an encoder for the
* object type in the endpoint configuration. Progress may be tracked using the Future object. The Future's
* get() methods return {@code null} upon successful completion. Errors in transmission are wrapped in the
* {@link java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException} thrown when querying the Future object.
*
* @param data the object being sent.
* @return the Future object representing the send operation.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the data is {@code null}.
*
*/
Future sendObject(Object data);
/**
* Initiates the asynchronous transmission of a custom developer object. Containers will by default be able to
* encode java primitive types and their object equivalents, otherwise the developer must have provided an
* encoder for the object type in the endpoint configuration. Developers are notified when transmission is
* complete through the supplied callback object.
*
* @param data the object being sent.
* @param handler the handler that will be notified of progress, must not be {@code null}.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if either the data or the handler are {@code null}.
*/
void sendObject(Object data, SendHandler handler);
}
/**
* This representation of the peer of a web socket conversation has the ability to send messages synchronously. The
* point of completion of the send is defined when all the supplied data has been written to the underlying
* connection. The methods for sending messages on the RemoteEndpoint.Basic block until this point of completion is
* reached, except for {@link RemoteEndpoint.Basic#getSendStream() getSendStream} and
* {@link RemoteEndpoint.Basic#getSendWriter() getSendWriter} which present traditional blocking I/O streams to
* write messages.
*
*
* If the websocket connection underlying this RemoteEndpoint is busy sending a message when a call is made to send
* another one, for example if two threads attempt to call a send method concurrently, or if a developer attempts to
* send a new message while in the middle of sending an existing one, the send method called while the connection is
* already busy may throw an {@link java.lang.IllegalStateException}.
*/
interface Basic extends RemoteEndpoint {
/**
* Send a text message, blocking until all of the message has been transmitted.
*
* @param text the message to be sent.
* @throws IOException if there is a problem delivering the message.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the text is {@code null}.
*/
void sendText(String text) throws IOException;
/**
* Send a binary message, returning when all of the message has been transmitted.
*
* @param data the message to be sent.
* @throws IOException if there is a problem delivering the message.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the data is {@code null}.
*
*/
void sendBinary(ByteBuffer data) throws IOException;
/**
* Send a text message in parts, blocking until all of the message has been transmitted. The runtime reads the
* message in order. Non-final parts of the message are sent with isLast set to false. The final part must be
* sent with isLast set to true.
*
* @param partialMessage the parts of the message being sent.
* @param isLast Whether the partial message being sent is the last part of the message.
* @throws IOException if there is a problem delivering the message fragment.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the partialMessage is {@code null}.
*/
void sendText(String partialMessage, boolean isLast) throws IOException;
/**
* Send a binary message in parts, blocking until all of the message has been transmitted. The runtime reads the
* message in order. Non-final parts are sent with isLast set to false. The final piece must be sent with isLast
* set to true.
*
* @param partialByte the part of the message being sent.
* @param isLast Whether the partial message being sent is the last part of the message.
* @throws IOException if there is a problem delivering the partial message.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the partialByte is {@code null}.
*/
void sendBinary(ByteBuffer partialByte, boolean isLast) throws IOException; // or Iterable
/**
* Opens an output stream on which a binary message may be sent. The developer must close the output stream in
* order to indicate that the complete message has been placed into the output stream.
*
* @return the output stream to which the message will be written.
* @throws IOException if there is a problem obtaining the OutputStream to write the binary message.
*/
OutputStream getSendStream() throws IOException;
/**
* Opens an character stream on which a text message may be sent. The developer must close the writer in order
* to indicate that the complete message has been placed into the character stream.
*
* @return the writer to which the message will be written.
* @throws IOException if there is a problem obtaining the Writer to write the text message.
*/
Writer getSendWriter() throws IOException;
/**
* Sends a custom developer object, blocking until it has been transmitted. Containers will by default be able
* to encode java primitive types and their object equivalents, otherwise the developer must have provided an
* encoder for the object type in the endpoint configuration. A developer-provided encoder for a Java primitive
* type overrides the container default encoder.
*
* @param data the object to be sent.
* @throws IOException if there is a communication error sending the message object.
* @throws EncodeException if there was a problem encoding the message object into the form of a native
* websocket message.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the data parameter is {@code null}
*/
void sendObject(Object data) throws IOException, EncodeException;
}
}