1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 17 * under the License. 18 * 19 */ 20 package org.apache.mina.common; 21 22 /** 23 * Allocates {@link ByteBuffer}s and manages them. Please implement this 24 * interface if you need more advanced memory management scheme. 25 * 26 * @author The Apache Directory Project (mina-dev@directory.apache.org) 27 * @version $Rev: 555855 $, $Date: 2007-07-13 12:19:00 +0900 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) $ 28 */ 29 public interface ByteBufferAllocator { 30 /** 31 * Returns the buffer which is capable of the specified size. 32 * 33 * @param capacity the capacity of the buffer 34 * @param direct <tt>true</tt> to get a direct buffer, 35 * <tt>false</tt> to get a heap buffer. 36 */ 37 ByteBuffer allocate(int capacity, boolean direct); 38 39 /** 40 * Wraps the specified NIO {@link java.nio.ByteBuffer} into MINA buffer. 41 */ 42 ByteBuffer wrap(java.nio.ByteBuffer nioBuffer); 43 44 /** 45 * Dispose of this allocator. 46 */ 47 void dispose(); 48 }