org.apache.mina.filter.codec.statemachine
Interface DecodingState

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConsumeToCrLfDecodingState, ConsumeToDynamicTerminatorDecodingState, ConsumeToEndOfSessionDecodingState, ConsumeToLinearWhitespaceDecodingState, ConsumeToTerminatorDecodingState, CrLfDecodingState, DecodingStateMachine, FixedLengthDecodingState, IntegerDecodingState, LinearWhitespaceSkippingState, ShortIntegerDecodingState, SingleByteDecodingState, SkippingState

public interface DecodingState

Represents a state in a decoder state machine used by DecodingStateMachine.

Author:

Apache MINA Project

Method Summary

DecodingState	decode(IoBuffer in, ProtocolDecoderOutput out) Invoked when data is available for this state.
DecodingState	finishDecode(ProtocolDecoderOutput out) Invoked when the associated IoSession is closed.

Method Detail

decode

DecodingState decode(IoBuffer in,
                     ProtocolDecoderOutput out)
                     throws Exception

Invoked when data is available for this state.

Parameters:

in - the data to be decoded.

out - used to write decoded objects.

Returns:

the next state if a state transition was triggered (use this for loop transitions) or null if the state machine has reached its end.

Throws:

Exception - if the read data violated protocol specification.

finishDecode

DecodingState finishDecode(ProtocolDecoderOutput out)
                           throws Exception

Invoked when the associated IoSession is closed. This method is useful when you deal with protocols which don't specify the length of a message (e.g. HTTP responses without content-length header). Implement this method to process the remaining data that decode(IoBuffer, ProtocolDecoderOutput) method didn't process completely.

Parameters:

out - used to write decoded objects.

Returns:

the next state if a state transition was triggered (use this for loop transitions) or null if the state machine has reached its end.

Throws:

Exception - if the read data violated protocol specification.