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package org.apache.mina.filter.codec;
import org.apache.mina.core.buffer.IoBuffer;
import org.apache.mina.core.session.IoSession;
/**
* Decodes binary or protocol-specific data into higher-level message objects.
* MINA invokes {@link #decode(IoSession, IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)}
* method with read data, and then the decoder implementation puts decoded
* messages into {@link ProtocolDecoderOutput} by calling
* {@link ProtocolDecoderOutput#write(Object)}.
*
* Please refer to
* TextLineDecoder
* example.
*
* @author Apache MINA Project
*
* @see ProtocolDecoderException
*/
public interface ProtocolDecoder {
/**
* Decodes binary or protocol-specific content into higher-level message objects.
* MINA invokes {@link #decode(IoSession, IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)}
* method with read data, and then the decoder implementation puts decoded
* messages into {@link ProtocolDecoderOutput}.
*
* @throws Exception if the read data violated protocol specification
*/
void decode(IoSession session, IoBuffer in, ProtocolDecoderOutput out)
throws Exception;
/**
* Invoked when the specified session is closed. This method is useful
* when you deal with the protocol which doesn't specify the length of a message
* such as HTTP response without content-length header. Implement this
* method to process the remaining data that {@link #decode(IoSession, IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput)}
* method didn't process completely.
*
* @throws Exception if the read data violated protocol specification
*/
void finishDecode(IoSession session, ProtocolDecoderOutput out)
throws Exception;
/**
* Releases all resources related with this decoder.
*
* @throws Exception if failed to dispose all resources
*/
void dispose(IoSession session) throws Exception;
}