1 /* 2 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project 3 * 4 * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License, 5 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 6 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: 7 * 8 * https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT 12 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the 13 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations 14 * under the License. 15 */ 16 package io.netty.handler.codec.http; 17 18 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf; 19 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBufHolder; 20 import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline; 21 22 /** 23 * An HTTP chunk which is used for HTTP chunked transfer-encoding. 24 * {@link HttpObjectDecoder} generates {@link HttpContent} after 25 * {@link HttpMessage} when the content is large or the encoding of the content 26 * is 'chunked. If you prefer not to receive {@link HttpContent} in your handler, 27 * place {@link HttpObjectAggregator} after {@link HttpObjectDecoder} in the 28 * {@link ChannelPipeline}. 29 */ 30 public interface HttpContent extends HttpObject, ByteBufHolder { 31 @Override 32 HttpContent copy(); 33 34 @Override 35 HttpContent duplicate(); 36 37 @Override 38 HttpContent retainedDuplicate(); 39 40 @Override 41 HttpContent replace(ByteBuf content); 42 43 @Override 44 HttpContent retain(); 45 46 @Override 47 HttpContent retain(int increment); 48 49 @Override 50 HttpContent touch(); 51 52 @Override 53 HttpContent touch(Object hint); 54 }