IoHandlerFactory Type — netty Architecture

Source Code

transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/IoHandlerFactory.java lines 23–44

public interface IoHandlerFactory {

    /**
     * Creates a new {@link IoHandler} instance.
     *
     * @param ioExecutor        the {@link ThreadAwareExecutor} for the {@link IoHandler}.
     * @return                  a new {@link IoHandler} instance.
     */
    IoHandler newHandler(ThreadAwareExecutor ioExecutor);

    /**
     * Returns {@code true} if it's supported that the {@link ThreadAwareExecutor} might change its {@link Thread}
     * during the life-time of the {@link IoHandler} that can be created via {@link #newHandler(ThreadAwareExecutor)}.
     * That said even if changing the {@link Thread} is supported it must be guaranteed that the access rules specified
     * by {@link IoHandler} are not violated.
     *
     * @return {@code true} if changing is supported, {@code false} otherwise.
     */
    default boolean isChangingThreadSupported() {
        return false;
    }
}