org.jboss.netty.channel.local
Interface LocalChannel

All Superinterfaces:

Channel, Comparable<Channel>

public interface LocalChannel
extends Channel

A Channel for the local transport.

Version:

$Rev: 2080 $, $Date: 2010-01-26 18:04:19 +0900 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) $

Author:

The Netty Project, Andy Taylor (andy.taylor@jboss.org), Trustin Lee

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel

OP_NONE, OP_READ, OP_READ_WRITE, OP_WRITE

Method Summary

LocalAddress	getLocalAddress() Returns the local address where this channel is bound to.
LocalAddress	getRemoteAddress() Returns the remote address where this channel is connected to.

Methods inherited from interface org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel

bind, close, connect, disconnect, getCloseFuture, getConfig, getFactory, getId, getInterestOps, getParent, getPipeline, isBound, isConnected, isOpen, isReadable, isWritable, setInterestOps, setReadable, unbind, write, write

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

getLocalAddress

LocalAddress getLocalAddress()

Description copied from interface: Channel

Returns the local address where this channel is bound to. The returned SocketAddress is supposed to be down-cast into more concrete type such as InetSocketAddress to retrieve the detailed information.

Specified by:

getLocalAddress in interface Channel

Returns:

the local address of this channel. null if this channel is not bound.

getRemoteAddress

LocalAddress getRemoteAddress()

Description copied from interface: Channel

Returns the remote address where this channel is connected to. The returned SocketAddress is supposed to be down-cast into more concrete type such as InetSocketAddress to retrieve the detailed information.

Specified by:

getRemoteAddress in interface Channel

Returns:

the remote address of this channel. null if this channel is not connected. If this channel is not connected but it can receive messages from arbitrary remote addresses (e.g. DatagramChannel, use MessageEvent.getRemoteAddress() to determine the origination of the received message as this method will return null.