Unsafe Type — netty Architecture

Source Code

transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/Channel.java lines 373–465

    interface Unsafe {

        /**
         * Return the assigned {@link RecvByteBufAllocator.Handle} which will be used to allocate {@link ByteBuf}'s when
         * receiving data.
         */
        RecvByteBufAllocator.Handle recvBufAllocHandle();

        /**
         * Return the {@link SocketAddress} to which is bound local or
         * {@code null} if none.
         */
        SocketAddress localAddress();

        /**
         * Return the {@link SocketAddress} to which is bound remote or
         * {@code null} if none is bound yet.
         */
        SocketAddress remoteAddress();

        /**
         * Register the {@link Channel} of the {@link ChannelPromise} and notify
         * the {@link ChannelFuture} once the registration was complete.
         */
        void register(EventLoop eventLoop, ChannelPromise promise);

        /**
         * Bind the {@link SocketAddress} to the {@link Channel} of the {@link ChannelPromise} and notify
         * it once its done.
         */
        void bind(SocketAddress localAddress, ChannelPromise promise);

        /**
         * Connect the {@link Channel} of the given {@link ChannelFuture} with the given remote {@link SocketAddress}.
         * If a specific local {@link SocketAddress} should be used it need to be given as argument. Otherwise just
         * pass {@code null} to it.
         *
         * The {@link ChannelPromise} will get notified once the connect operation was complete.
         */
        void connect(SocketAddress remoteAddress, SocketAddress localAddress, ChannelPromise promise);

        /**
         * Disconnect the {@link Channel} of the {@link ChannelFuture} and notify the {@link ChannelPromise} once the
         * operation was complete.
         */
        void disconnect(ChannelPromise promise);

        /**
         * Close the {@link Channel} of the {@link ChannelPromise} and notify the {@link ChannelPromise} once the
         * operation was complete.
         */
        void close(ChannelPromise promise);

        /**
         * Closes the {@link Channel} immediately without firing any events.  Probably only useful
         * when registration attempt failed.
         */
        void closeForcibly();

        /**
         * Deregister the {@link Channel} of the {@link ChannelPromise} from {@link EventLoop} and notify the
         * {@link ChannelPromise} once the operation was complete.
         */
        void deregister(ChannelPromise promise);

        /**
         * Schedules a read operation that fills the inbound buffer of the first {@link ChannelInboundHandler} in the
         * {@link ChannelPipeline}.  If there's already a pending read operation, this method does nothing.
         */
        void beginRead();

        /**
         * Schedules a write operation.
         */
        void write(Object msg, ChannelPromise promise);

        /**
         * Flush out all write operations scheduled via {@link #write(Object, ChannelPromise)}.
         */
        void flush();