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
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8 * https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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15 */
16 package io.netty.channel;
17
18 import io.netty.util.ReferenceCounted;
19
20 import java.io.IOException;
21 import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
22 import java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel;
23
24 /**
25 * A region of a file that is sent via a {@link Channel} which supports
26 * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-copy">zero-copy file transfer</a>.
27 *
28 * <h3>Check your operating system and JDK / JRE</h3>
29 *
30 * If your operating system (or JDK / JRE) does not support zero-copy file
31 * transfer, sending a file with {@link FileRegion} might fail or yield worse
32 * performance. For example, sending a large file doesn't work well in Windows.
33 *
34 * <h3>Not all transports support it</h3>
35 */
36 public interface FileRegion extends ReferenceCounted {
37
38 /**
39 * Returns the offset in the file where the transfer began.
40 */
41 long position();
42
43 /**
44 * Returns the bytes which was transferred already.
45 *
46 * @deprecated Use {@link #transferred()} instead.
47 */
48 @Deprecated
49 long transfered();
50
51 /**
52 * Returns the bytes which was transferred already.
53 */
54 long transferred();
55
56 /**
57 * Returns the number of bytes to transfer.
58 */
59 long count();
60
61 /**
62 * Transfers the content of this file region to the specified channel.
63 *
64 * @param target the destination of the transfer
65 * @param position the relative offset of the file where the transfer
66 * begins from. For example, <tt>0</tt> will make the
67 * transfer start from {@link #position()}th byte and
68 * <tt>{@link #count()} - 1</tt> will make the last
69 * byte of the region transferred.
70 */
71 long transferTo(WritableByteChannel target, long position) throws IOException;
72
73 @Override
74 FileRegion retain();
75
76 @Override
77 FileRegion retain(int increment);
78
79 @Override
80 FileRegion touch();
81
82 @Override
83 FileRegion touch(Object hint);
84 }