io.netty.channel

Interface EventLoopGroup

All Superinterfaces:

EventExecutorGroup

All Known Subinterfaces:

EventLoop

All Known Implementing Classes:

AioEventLoopGroup, LocalEventLoopGroup, MultithreadEventLoopGroup, NioEventLoopGroup, OioEventLoopGroup, SingleThreadEventLoop

public interface EventLoopGroup
extends EventExecutorGroup

Special EventExecutorGroup which allows to register Channel's that get processed for later selection during the event loop.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
EventLoop	next() Return the next EventLoop to use
ChannelFuture	register(Channel channel) Register a Channel with this EventLoop.
ChannelFuture	register(Channel channel, ChannelFuture future) Register a Channel with this EventLoop.

Methods inherited from interface io.netty.channel.EventExecutorGroup

awaitTermination, isShutdown, isTerminated, shutdown

Method Detail

next

EventLoop next()

Return the next EventLoop to use

Specified by:

next in interface EventExecutorGroup

register

ChannelFuture register(Channel channel)

Register a Channel with this EventLoop. The returned ChannelFuture will get notified once the registration was complete.

register

ChannelFuture register(Channel channel,
                     ChannelFuture future)

Register a Channel with this EventLoop. The passed ChannelFuture will get notified once the registration was complete and also will get returned.