Package io.netty.channel.pool

Interface ChannelPool

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Closeable

All Known Implementing Classes:

FixedChannelPool, SimpleChannelPool

public interface ChannelPool
extends Closeable

Allows to acquire and release Channel and so act as a pool of these.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
io.netty.util.concurrent.Future<Channel>	acquire()	Acquire a Channel from this ChannelPool.
io.netty.util.concurrent.Future<Channel>	acquire(io.netty.util.concurrent.Promise<Channel> promise)	Acquire a Channel from this ChannelPool.
void	close()
io.netty.util.concurrent.Future<Void>	release(Channel channel)	Release a Channel back to this ChannelPool.
io.netty.util.concurrent.Future<Void>	release(Channel channel, io.netty.util.concurrent.Promise<Void> promise)	Release a Channel back to this ChannelPool.

Method Detail

acquire

io.netty.util.concurrent.Future<Channel> acquire()

Acquire a Channel from this ChannelPool. The returned Future is notified once the acquire is successful and failed otherwise. Its important that an acquired is always released to the pool again, even if the Channel is explicitly closed..

acquire

io.netty.util.concurrent.Future<Channel> acquire(io.netty.util.concurrent.Promise<Channel> promise)

Acquire a Channel from this ChannelPool. The given Promise is notified once the acquire is successful and failed otherwise. Its important that an acquired is always released to the pool again, even if the Channel is explicitly closed..

release

io.netty.util.concurrent.Future<Void> release(Channel channel)

Release a Channel back to this ChannelPool. The returned Future is notified once the release is successful and failed otherwise. When failed the Channel will automatically closed.

release

io.netty.util.concurrent.Future<Void> release(Channel channel,
                                              io.netty.util.concurrent.Promise<Void> promise)

Release a Channel back to this ChannelPool. The given Promise is notified once the release is successful and failed otherwise. When failed the Channel will automatically closed.

close

void close()

Specified by:

close in interface AutoCloseable

Specified by:

close in interface Closeable