MessageToByteEncoder.java — netty Source File

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package io.netty.handler.codec;

import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandler;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelPromise;
import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
import io.netty.util.internal.TypeParameterMatcher;


/**
 * {@link ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter} which encodes message in a stream-like fashion from one message to an
 * {@link ByteBuf}.
 *
 *
 * Example implementation which encodes {@link Integer}s to a {@link ByteBuf}.
 *
 * <pre>
 *     public class IntegerEncoder extends {@link MessageToByteEncoder}&lt;{@link Integer}&gt; {
 *         {@code @Override}
 *         public void encode({@link ChannelHandlerContext} ctx, {@link Integer} msg, {@link ByteBuf} out)
 *                 throws {@link Exception} {
 *             out.writeInt(msg);
 *         }
 *     }
 * </pre>
 */
public abstract class MessageToByteEncoder<I> extends ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter {

    private final TypeParameterMatcher matcher;
    private final boolean preferDirect;

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

    /**
     * see {@link #MessageToByteEncoder(Class, boolean)} with {@code true} as boolean value.
     */
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