| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015 Eike Stepper (Berlin, Germany) and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * Eike Stepper - initial API and implementation |
| */ |
| package org.eclipse.net4j.buffer; |
| |
| /** |
| * Provides clients with the ability to obtain and retain {@link IBuffer}s. |
| * |
| * @author Eike Stepper |
| */ |
| public interface IBufferProvider |
| { |
| /** |
| * Returns the capacity of the buffers provided by {@link #provideBuffer()} . |
| */ |
| public short getBufferCapacity(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Provides a buffer from this <code>BufferProvider</code>. |
| */ |
| public IBuffer provideBuffer(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Retains a buffer to this <code>BufferProvider</code>. |
| */ |
| public void retainBuffer(IBuffer buffer); |
| |
| /** |
| * Offers additional introspection features for {@link IBufferProvider}s. |
| * |
| * @author Eike Stepper |
| */ |
| public interface Introspection extends IBufferProvider |
| { |
| /** |
| * Returns the number of buffers that have already been provided by this <code>BufferProvider</code>. |
| */ |
| public long getProvidedBuffers(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the number of buffers that have already been retained to this <code>BufferProvider</code>. |
| */ |
| public long getRetainedBuffers(); |
| } |
| } |