Package org.apache.coyote

Interface InputBuffer

All Known Subinterfaces:

InputFilter

All Known Implementing Classes:

AjpProcessor.SocketInputBuffer, BufferedInputFilter, ChunkedInputFilter, Http11InputBuffer, IdentityInputFilter, SavedRequestInputFilter, VoidInputFilter

public interface InputBuffer

This class is only for internal use in the protocol implementation. All reading from Tomcat (or adapter) should be done using Request.doRead().

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	doRead(ApplicationBufferHandler handler)	Read from the input stream into the ByteBuffer provided by the ApplicationBufferHandler.

Method Detail

doRead

int doRead(ApplicationBufferHandler handler)
    throws java.io.IOException

Read from the input stream into the ByteBuffer provided by the ApplicationBufferHandler. IMPORTANT: the current model assumes that the protocol will 'own' the ByteBuffer and return a pointer to it.

Parameters:

handler - ApplicationBufferHandler that provides the buffer to read data into.

Returns:

The number of bytes that have been added to the buffer or -1 for end of stream

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If an I/O error occurs reading from the input stream