geode-core/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/internal/tcp/BaseMsgStreamer.java

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package org.apache.geode.internal.tcp;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Base interface for {@link MsgStreamer} and {@link MsgStreamerList} to send a message over a list
 * of connections to one or more peers.
 *
 * @since GemFire 7.1
 */
public interface BaseMsgStreamer {

  void reserveConnections(long startTime, long ackTimeout, long ackSDTimeout);

  /**
   * Returns a list of the Connections that the message was sent to. Call this after
   * {@link #writeMessage}.
   */
  List<?> getSentConnections();

  /**
   * Returns an exception the describes which cons the message was not sent to. Call this after
   * {@link #writeMessage}.
   */
  ConnectExceptions getConnectExceptions();

  /**
   * Writes the message to the connected streams and returns the number of bytes written.
   *
   * @throws IOException if serialization failure
   */
  int writeMessage() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Close this streamer.
   *
   * @throws IOException on exception
   */
  void close() throws IOException;
}