org.apache.avro.ipc
Class Responder

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.avro.ipc.Responder

Direct Known Subclasses:

GenericResponder, SpecificResponder

public abstract class Responder
extends Object

Base class for the server side of a protocol interaction.

Field Summary

protected List<RPCPlugin>

rpcMetaPlugins

Constructor Summary

protected

Responder(Protocol local)

Method Summary

void	addRPCPlugin(RPCPlugin plugin) Adds a new plugin to manipulate per-call metadata.
Protocol	getLocal()
abstract Object	readRequest(Schema schema, Decoder in) Reads a request message.
List<ByteBuffer>	respond(List<ByteBuffer> buffers) Called by a server to deserialize a request, compute and serialize a response or error.
List<ByteBuffer>	respond(List<ByteBuffer> buffers, Transceiver connection) Called by a server to deserialize a request, compute and serialize a response or error.
abstract Object	respond(Protocol.Message message, Object request) Computes the response for a message.
abstract void	writeError(Schema schema, Object error, Encoder out) Writes an error message.
abstract void	writeResponse(Schema schema, Object response, Encoder out) Writes a response message.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

rpcMetaPlugins

protected List<RPCPlugin> rpcMetaPlugins

Constructor Detail

Responder

protected Responder(Protocol local)

Method Detail

getLocal

public Protocol getLocal()

addRPCPlugin

public void addRPCPlugin(RPCPlugin plugin)

Adds a new plugin to manipulate per-call metadata. Plugins are executed in the order that they are added.

Parameters:

plugin - a plugin that will manipulate RPC metadata

respond

public List<ByteBuffer> respond(List<ByteBuffer> buffers)
                         throws IOException

Called by a server to deserialize a request, compute and serialize a response or error.

Throws:

IOException

respond

public List<ByteBuffer> respond(List<ByteBuffer> buffers,
                                Transceiver connection)
                         throws IOException

Called by a server to deserialize a request, compute and serialize a response or error. Transciever is used by connection-based servers to track handshake status of connection.

Throws:

IOException

respond

public abstract Object respond(Protocol.Message message,
                               Object request)
                        throws Exception

Computes the response for a message.

Throws:

Exception

readRequest

public abstract Object readRequest(Schema schema,
                                   Decoder in)
                            throws IOException

Reads a request message.

Throws:

IOException

writeResponse

public abstract void writeResponse(Schema schema,
                                   Object response,
                                   Encoder out)
                            throws IOException

Writes a response message.

Throws:

IOException

writeError

public abstract void writeError(Schema schema,
                                Object error,
                                Encoder out)
                         throws IOException

Writes an error message.

Throws:

IOException