invokeLater() — netty Function Reference

Source Code

transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/AbstractChannel.java lines 874–891

        private void invokeLater(Runnable task) {
            try {
                // This method is used by outbound operation implementations to trigger an inbound event later.
                // They do not trigger an inbound event immediately because an outbound operation might have been
                // triggered by another inbound event handler method.  If fired immediately, the call stack
                // will look like this for example:
                //
                //   handlerA.inboundBufferUpdated() - (1) an inbound handler method closes a connection.
                //   -> handlerA.ctx.close()
                //      -> channel.unsafe.close()
                //         -> handlerA.channelInactive() - (2) another inbound handler method called while in (1) yet
                //
                // which means the execution of two inbound handler methods of the same handler overlap undesirably.
                eventLoop().execute(task);
            } catch (RejectedExecutionException e) {
                logger.warn("Can't invoke task later as EventLoop rejected it", e);
            }
        }