SimpleUserEventChannelHandler Class — netty Architecture

Source Code

transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/SimpleUserEventChannelHandler.java lines 42–120

public abstract class SimpleUserEventChannelHandler<I> extends ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter {

    private final TypeParameterMatcher matcher;
    private final boolean autoRelease;

    /**
     * see {@link #SimpleUserEventChannelHandler(boolean)} with {@code true} as boolean parameter.
     */
    protected SimpleUserEventChannelHandler() {
        this(true);
    }

    /**
     * Create a new instance which will try to detect the types to match out of the type parameter of the class.
     *
     * @param autoRelease   {@code true} if handled events should be released automatically by passing them to
     *                      {@link ReferenceCountUtil#release(Object)}.
     */
    protected SimpleUserEventChannelHandler(boolean autoRelease) {
        matcher = TypeParameterMatcher.find(this, SimpleUserEventChannelHandler.class, "I");
        this.autoRelease = autoRelease;
    }

    /**
     * see {@link #SimpleUserEventChannelHandler(Class, boolean)} with {@code true} as boolean value.
     */
    protected SimpleUserEventChannelHandler(Class<? extends I> eventType) {
        this(eventType, true);
    }

    /**
     * Create a new instance
     *
     * @param eventType      The type of events to match
     * @param autoRelease    {@code true} if handled events should be released automatically by passing them to
     *                       {@link ReferenceCountUtil#release(Object)}.
     */
    protected SimpleUserEventChannelHandler(Class<? extends I> eventType, boolean autoRelease) {
        matcher = TypeParameterMatcher.get(eventType);
        this.autoRelease = autoRelease;
    }

    /**
     * Returns {@code true} if the given user event should be handled. If {@code false} it will be passed to the next
     * {@link ChannelInboundHandler} in the {@link ChannelPipeline}.
     */
    protected boolean acceptEvent(Object evt) throws Exception {
        return matcher.match(evt);
    }

    @Override
    public final void userEventTriggered(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object evt) throws Exception {
        boolean release = true;
        try {
            if (acceptEvent(evt)) {
                @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                I ievt = (I) evt;
                eventReceived(ctx, ievt);
            } else {
                release = false;
                ctx.fireUserEventTriggered(evt);
            }
        } finally {
            if (autoRelease && release) {
                ReferenceCountUtil.release(evt);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Is called for each user event triggered of type {@link I}.
     *
     * @param ctx the {@link ChannelHandlerContext} which this {@link SimpleUserEventChannelHandler} belongs to
     * @param evt the user event to handle
     *
     * @throws Exception is thrown if an error occurred
     */
    protected abstract void eventReceived(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, I evt) throws Exception;
}