Encoder (Tyrus 1.21 API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

Encoder.Binary<T>, Encoder.BinaryStream<T>, Encoder.Text<T>, Encoder.TextStream<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

CoderWrapper, NoOpByteArrayCoder, NoOpByteBufferCoder, NoOpTextCoder, ToStringEncoder
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public interface Encoder
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The Encoder interface defines how developers can provide a way to convert their custom objects into web socket messages. The Encoder interface contains subinterfaces that allow encoding algorithms to encode custom objects to: text, binary data, character stream and write to an output stream. The websocket implementation creates a new instance of the encoder per endpoint instance per connection. This means that each encoder instance has at most one calling thread at a time. The lifecycle of the Encoder instance is governed by the container calls to the init(javax.websocket.EndpointConfig) and destroy() methods.

Author:

dannycoward

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes
Modifier and Type	Interface	Description
`static interface`	`Encoder.Binary<T>`	This interface defines how to provide a way to convert a custom object into a binary message.
`static interface`	`Encoder.BinaryStream<T>`	This interface may be implemented by encoding algorithms that want to write the encoded object to a binary stream.
`static interface`	`Encoder.Text<T>`	This interface defines how to provide a way to convert a custom object into a text message.
`static interface`	`Encoder.TextStream<T>`	This interface may be implemented by encoding algorithms that want to write the encoded object to a character stream.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`destroy()`	This method is called when the encoder is about to be removed from service in order that any resources the encoder used may be closed gracefully.
`void`	`init(EndpointConfig config)`	This method is called with the endpoint configuration object of the endpoint this encoder is intended for when it is about to be brought into service.

- Method Detail
  - init
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void init(EndpointConfig config)
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    This method is called with the endpoint configuration object of the endpoint this encoder is intended for when it is about to be brought into service.
    
    Parameters:
    
    config - the endpoint configuration object when being brought into service
  - destroy
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void destroy()
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    This method is called when the encoder is about to be removed from service in order that any resources the encoder used may be closed gracefully.