javax.websocket
Interface Encoder

All Known Subinterfaces:

Encoder.Binary<T>, Encoder.BinaryStream<T>, Encoder.Text<T>, Encoder.TextStream<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

Encoder.Adapter

public interface Encoder

The Encoder interface defines how developers can provide a way to convert their custom objects into web socket messages. The Encoder interface contains subinterfaces that allow encoding algorithms to encode custom objects to: text, binary data, character stream and write to an output stream. The websocket implementation creates a new instance of the encoder per endpoint instance per connection. This means that each encoder instance has at most one calling thread at a time. The lifecycle of the Encoder instance is governed by the container calls to the init(javax.websocket.EndpointConfig) and destroy() methods. Developers may subclass the Encoder.Adapter class to avoid having to implement these lifecycle methods if they wish.

Author:

dannycoward

Nested Class Summary

static class	Encoder.Adapter A convenience class for developers who do not wish to provide any special behavior in the init() or destroy() methods.
static interface	Encoder.Binary<T> This interface defines how to provide a way to convert a custom object into a binary message.
static interface	Encoder.BinaryStream<T> This interface may be implemented by encoding algorithms that want to write the encoded object to a binary stream.
static interface	Encoder.Text<T> This interface defines how to provide a way to convert a custom object into a text message.
static interface	Encoder.TextStream<T> This interface may be implemented by encoding algorithms that want to write the encoded object to a character stream.

Method Summary

void	destroy() This method is called when the encoder is about to be removed from service in order that any resources the encoder used may be closed gracefully.
void	init(EndpointConfig config) This method is called with the endpoint configuration object of the endpoint this encoder is intended for when it is about to be brought into service.

Method Detail

init

void init(EndpointConfig config)

This method is called with the endpoint configuration object of the endpoint this encoder is intended for when it is about to be brought into service.

Parameters:

config - the endpoint configuration object when being brought into service

destroy

void destroy()

This method is called when the encoder is about to be removed from service in order that any resources the encoder used may be closed gracefully.