abs.ixi.client.core

Interface Writable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Packet

All Known Implementing Classes:

AckPacket, AckRequestPacket, Challenge, FailedPacket, Failure, IQ, Message, Multipart, MultipartMessage, Presence, Proceed, ResourceBind, SASLAuth, SMEnable, SMEnabledPacket, Stanza, StartTLS, StreamFeaturePacket, StreamHeader, StreamResume, StreamResumed, Success, XMPPError, XMPPPacket

public interface Writable

Writable is a contract to make an entity writable to some destination; may be a network socket, output stream etc.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	writeTo(OutputStream os) Write to an OutputStream
long	writeTo(Socket socket) Write this entity to a network socket.
long	writeTo(SocketChannel socketChannel) Write this entity to a SocketChannel

Method Detail

writeTo

long writeTo(Socket socket)
      throws IOException

Write this entity to a network socket. The byte conversion mechanism is up to the implementation to decide.

Parameters:

socket - network socket on which bytes will be written

Returns:

no of bytes written

Throws:

IOException - if any IO error occurred

writeTo

long writeTo(SocketChannel socketChannel)
      throws IOException

Write this entity to a SocketChannel

Parameters:

socketChannel - network socket channel

Returns:

no of bytes written

Throws:

IOException - if any IO error occurred while writing bytes

writeTo

long writeTo(OutputStream os)
      throws IOException

Write to an OutputStream

Parameters:

os - OutputStream insatnce

Returns:

no of bytes written

Throws:

IOException - if IO error occurrs