ch.dermitza.securenio.packet

Interface PacketIF

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractTestPacket, PacketPing, PacketPong, PacketUnknown, SimplePacket, TestPacketOne

public interface PacketIF

A network packet interface, containing required methods to create an application-level packet, to reconstrust such a packet from raw bytes received, and to get the contents of this packet as raw bytes. The implementation specific details are application dependent.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
short	getHeader() Get the header of this packet
void	reconstruct(java.nio.ByteBuffer source) Reconstruct this PacketIF from the given ByteBuffer
java.nio.ByteBuffer	toBytes() Get the contents of this PacketIF as a ByteBuffer

Method Detail

getHeader

short getHeader()

Get the header of this packet

Returns:

The header of this packet, can be 1 or 2 bytes long

reconstruct

void reconstruct(java.nio.ByteBuffer source)

Reconstruct this PacketIF from the given ByteBuffer

Parameters:

source - The ByteBuffer to reconstruct this PacketIF from

toBytes

java.nio.ByteBuffer toBytes()

Get the contents of this PacketIF as a ByteBuffer

Returns:

the contents of this PacketIF as a ByteBuffer