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package io.fabric8.dosgi.io;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel;
import java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel;



/**
 * Interface to encode and decode commands in and out of a a non blocking channel.
 *
 */
public interface ProtocolCodec {

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //
    // Methods related with reading from the channel
    //
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    /**
     * @param channel
     */
    public void setReadableByteChannel(ReadableByteChannel channel);

    /**
     * Non-blocking channel based decoding.
     * 
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    Object read() throws IOException;

    /**
     * @return The number of bytes received.
     */
    public long getReadCounter();


    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //
    // Methods related with writing to the channel
    //
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


    enum BufferState {
        EMPTY,
        WAS_EMPTY,
        NOT_EMPTY,
        FULL,
    }

    public void setWritableByteChannel(WritableByteChannel channel);

    /**
     * Non-blocking channel based encoding.
     *
     * @return true if the write completed.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    BufferState write(Object value) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Attempts to complete the previous write which did not complete.
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    BufferState flush() throws IOException;

    /**
     * @return true if the codec will no accept any more writes.
     */
    boolean full();

    /**
     * @return The number of bytes written.
     */
    public long getWriteCounter();


}
