sentry-core/sentry-core-common/src/main/java/org/apache/sentry/core/common/transport/SentryClientInvocationHandler.java

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package org.apache.sentry.core.common.transport;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

/**
 * SentryClientInvocationHandler is the base interface for all the InvocationHandler in SENTRY
 */
public abstract class SentryClientInvocationHandler implements InvocationHandler {

  /**
   * Close the InvocationHandler: An InvocationHandler may create some contexts,
   * these contexts should be close when the method "close()" of client be called.
   */
  @Override
  public final Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args) throws Exception {
    // close() doesn't throw exception we supress that in case of connection
    // loss. Changing SentryPolicyServiceClient#close() to throw an
    // exception would be a backward incompatible change for Sentry clients.
    if ("close".equals(method.getName()) && null == args) {
      close();
      return null;
    }
    return invokeImpl(proxy, method, args);
  }

  /**
   * Subclass should implement this method for special function
   */
  abstract public Object invokeImpl(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args) throws Exception;

  /**
   * An abstract method "close", an invocationHandler should close its contexts at here.
   */
  public abstract void close();

}