1 /*
2 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
3 *
4 * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
5 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
6 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
12 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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14 * under the License.
15 */
16 package io.netty.handler.codec.http;
17
18 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBufHolder;
19 import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
20
21 /**
22 * An HTTP chunk which is used for HTTP chunked transfer-encoding.
23 * {@link HttpObjectDecoder} generates {@link HttpContent} after
24 * {@link HttpMessage} when the content is large or the encoding of the content
25 * is 'chunked. If you prefer not to receive {@link HttpContent} in your handler,
26 * place {@link HttpObjectAggregator} after {@link HttpObjectDecoder} in the
27 * {@link ChannelPipeline}.
28 */
29 public interface HttpContent extends HttpObject, ByteBufHolder {
30 @Override
31 HttpContent copy();
32
33 @Override
34 HttpContent duplicate();
35
36 @Override
37 HttpContent retain();
38
39 @Override
40 HttpContent retain(int increment);
41 }