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 import java.net.SocketAddress; 23 24 /** 25 * Connects to endpoint, communicates with the server, and fires events to 26 * {@link IoHandler}s. 27 * <p> 28 * Please refer to 29 * <a href="../../../../../xref-examples/org/apache/mina/examples/netcat/Main.html">NetCat</a> 30 * example. 31 * <p> 32 * You should connect to the desired socket address to start communication, 33 * and then events for incoming connections will be sent to the specified 34 * default {@link IoHandler}. 35 * <p> 36 * Threads connect to endpoint start automatically when 37 * {@link #connect(SocketAddress, IoHandler)} is invoked, and stop when all 38 * connection attempts are finished. 39 * 40 * @author The Apache Directory Project (mina-dev@directory.apache.org) 41 * @version $Rev: 555855 $, $Date: 2007-07-13 12:19:00 +0900 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) $ 42 */ 43 public interface IoConnector extends IoService { 44 /** 45 * Connects to the specified <code>address</code>. If communication starts 46 * successfully, events are fired to the specified 47 * <code>handler</code>. 48 * 49 * @return {@link ConnectFuture} that will tell the result of the connection attempt 50 */ 51 ConnectFuture connect(SocketAddress address, IoHandler handler); 52 53 /** 54 * Connects to the specified <code>address</code>. If communication starts 55 * successfully, events are fired to the specified 56 * <code>handler</code>. 57 * 58 * @param config the configuration 59 * @return {@link ConnectFuture} that will tell the result of the connection attempt 60 */ 61 ConnectFuture connect(SocketAddress address, IoHandler handler, 62 IoServiceConfig config); 63 64 /** 65 * Connects to the specified <code>address</code>. If communication starts 66 * successfully, events are fired to the specified 67 * <code>handler</code>. 68 * 69 * @param localAddress the local address the channel is bound to 70 * @return {@link ConnectFuture} that will tell the result of the connection attempt 71 */ 72 ConnectFuture connect(SocketAddress address, SocketAddress localAddress, 73 IoHandler handler); 74 75 /** 76 * Connects to the specified <code>address</code>. If communication starts 77 * successfully, events are fired to the specified 78 * <code>handler</code>. 79 * 80 * @param config the configuration 81 * @return {@link ConnectFuture} that will tell the result of the connection attempt 82 */ 83 ConnectFuture connect(SocketAddress address, SocketAddress localAddress, 84 IoHandler handler, IoServiceConfig config); 85 }