1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 17 * under the License. 18 * 19 */ 20 package org.apache.mina.common; 21 22 /** 23 * An {@link IoFuture} for asynchronous write requests. 24 * 25 * <h3>Example</h3> 26 * <pre> 27 * IoSession session = ...; 28 * WriteFuture future = session.write(...); 29 * // Wait until the message is completely written out to the O/S buffer. 30 * future.join(); 31 * if( future.isWritten() ) 32 * { 33 * // The message has been written successfully. 34 * } 35 * else 36 * { 37 * // The messsage couldn't be written out completely for some reason. 38 * // (e.g. Connection is closed) 39 * } 40 * </pre> 41 * 42 * @author The Apache MINA Project (dev@mina.apache.org) 43 * @version $Rev: 591310 $, $Date: 2007-11-02 05:57:00 -0600 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) $ 44 */ 45 public interface WriteFuture extends IoFuture { 46 /** 47 * Returns <tt>true</tt> if the write operation is finished successfully. 48 */ 49 boolean isWritten(); 50 51 /** 52 * Returns the cause of the write failure if and only if the write 53 * operation has failed due to an {@link Exception}. Otherwise, 54 * <tt>null</tt> is returned. 55 */ 56 Throwable getException(); 57 58 /** 59 * Sets the message is written, and notifies all threads waiting for 60 * this future. This method is invoked by MINA internally. Please do 61 * not call this method directly. 62 */ 63 void setWritten(); 64 65 /** 66 * Sets the cause of the write failure, and notifies all threads waiting 67 * for this future. This method is invoked by MINA internally. Please 68 * do not call this method directly. 69 */ 70 void setException(Throwable cause); 71 72 WriteFuture await() throws InterruptedException; 73 74 WriteFuture awaitUninterruptibly(); 75 76 WriteFuture addListener(IoFutureListener<?> listener); 77 78 WriteFuture removeListener(IoFutureListener<?> listener); 79 }