Package io.netty.channel

package io.netty.channel

The core channel API which is asynchronous and event-driven abstraction of various transports such as a NIO Channel.

Related Packages

Package	Description
io.netty.channel.embedded	A virtual Channel that helps wrapping a series of handlers to unit test the handlers or use them in non-I/O context.
io.netty.channel.epoll	Optimized transport for linux which uses EPOLL Edge-Triggered Mode for maximal performance.
io.netty.channel.group	A channel registry which helps a user maintain the list of open Channels and perform bulk operations on them.
io.netty.channel.internal	Internal utilities for channel implementations.
io.netty.channel.kqueue	BSD specific transport.
io.netty.channel.local	A virtual transport that enables the communication between the two parties in the same virtual machine.
io.netty.channel.nio	NIO-based channel API implementation - recommended for a large number of connections (>= 1000).
io.netty.channel.oio	Deprecated. use NIO / EPOLL / KQUEUE transport.
io.netty.channel.pool	Implementations and API for Channel pools.
io.netty.channel.rxtx	Deprecated. this transport will be removed in the next major version.
io.netty.channel.sctp	Abstract SCTP socket interfaces which extend the core channel API.
io.netty.channel.socket	Abstract TCP and UDP socket interfaces which extend the core channel API.
io.netty.channel.udt	Deprecated. The UDT transport is no longer maintained and will be removed.
io.netty.channel.unix	Unix specific transport.
io.netty.channel.uring	io_uring is a high I/O performance scalable interface for fully asynchronous Linux syscalls.

Class	Description
AbstractChannel	A skeletal Channel implementation.
AbstractCoalescingBufferQueue
AbstractEventLoop	Skeletal implementation of EventLoop.
AbstractEventLoopGroup	Skeletal implementation of EventLoopGroup.
AbstractServerChannel	A skeletal server-side Channel implementation.
AdaptiveRecvByteBufAllocator	The RecvByteBufAllocator that automatically increases and decreases the predicted buffer size on feed back.
AddressedEnvelope<M, A extends SocketAddress>	A message that wraps another message with a sender address and a recipient address.
Channel	A nexus to a network socket or a component which is capable of I/O operations such as read, write, connect, and bind.
Channel.Unsafe	Unsafe operations that should never be called from user-code.
ChannelConfig	A set of configuration properties of a Channel.
ChannelDuplexHandler	ChannelHandler implementation which represents a combination out of a ChannelInboundHandler and the ChannelOutboundHandler.
ChannelException	A RuntimeException which is thrown when an I/O operation fails.
ChannelFactory<T extends Channel>	Creates a new Channel.
ChannelFlushPromiseNotifier	This implementation allows to register ChannelFuture instances which will get notified once some amount of data was written and so a checkpoint was reached.
ChannelFuture	The result of an asynchronous Channel I/O operation.
ChannelFutureListener	Listens to the result of a ChannelFuture.
ChannelHandler	Handles an I/O event or intercepts an I/O operation, and forwards it to its next handler in its ChannelPipeline.
ChannelHandler.Sharable	Indicates that the same instance of the annotated ChannelHandler can be added to one or more ChannelPipelines multiple times without a race condition.
ChannelHandlerAdapter	Skeleton implementation of a ChannelHandler.
ChannelHandlerContext	Enables a ChannelHandler to interact with its ChannelPipeline and other handlers.
ChannelId	Represents the globally unique identifier of a Channel.
ChannelInboundHandler	ChannelHandler which adds callbacks for state changes.
ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter	Abstract base class for ChannelInboundHandler implementations which provide implementations of all of their methods.
ChannelInboundInvoker
ChannelInitializer<C extends Channel>	A special ChannelInboundHandler which offers an easy way to initialize a Channel once it was registered to its EventLoop.
ChannelMetadata	Represents the properties of a Channel implementation.
ChannelOption<T>	A ChannelOption allows to configure a ChannelConfig in a type-safe way.
ChannelOutboundBuffer	(Transport implementors only) an internal data structure used by AbstractChannel to store its pending outbound write requests.
ChannelOutboundBuffer.MessageProcessor
ChannelOutboundHandler	ChannelHandler which will get notified for IO-outbound-operations.
ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter	Skeleton implementation of a ChannelOutboundHandler.
ChannelOutboundInvoker
ChannelPipeline	A list of ChannelHandlers which handles or intercepts inbound events and outbound operations of a Channel.
ChannelPipelineException	A ChannelException which is thrown when a ChannelPipeline failed to execute an operation.
ChannelProgressiveFuture	An special ChannelFuture which is used to indicate the FileRegion transfer progress
ChannelProgressiveFutureListener	An EventListener listener which will be called once the sending task associated with future is being transferred.
ChannelProgressivePromise	Special ChannelPromise which will be notified once the associated bytes is transferring.
ChannelPromise	Special ChannelFuture which is writable.
ChannelPromiseAggregator	Deprecated. Use PromiseCombiner Class which is used to consolidate multiple channel futures into one, by listening to the individual futures and producing an aggregated result (success/failure) when all futures have completed.
ChannelPromiseNotifier	Deprecated. use PromiseNotifier.
CoalescingBufferQueue	A FIFO queue of bytes where producers add bytes by repeatedly adding ByteBuf and consumers take bytes in arbitrary lengths.
CombinedChannelDuplexHandler<I extends ChannelInboundHandler, O extends ChannelOutboundHandler>	Combines a ChannelInboundHandler and a ChannelOutboundHandler into one ChannelHandler.
ConnectTimeoutException	ConnectException which will be thrown if a connection could not be established because of a connection timeout.
DefaultAddressedEnvelope<M, A extends SocketAddress>	The default AddressedEnvelope implementation.
DefaultChannelConfig	The default ChannelConfig implementation.
DefaultChannelId	The default ChannelId implementation.
DefaultChannelPipeline	The default ChannelPipeline implementation.
DefaultChannelProgressivePromise	The default ChannelProgressivePromise implementation.
DefaultChannelPromise	The default ChannelPromise implementation.
DefaultEventLoop
DefaultEventLoopGroup	Deprecated.
DefaultFileRegion	Default FileRegion implementation which transfer data from a FileChannel or File.
DefaultMaxBytesRecvByteBufAllocator	The RecvByteBufAllocator that yields a buffer size prediction based upon decrementing the value from the max bytes per read.
DefaultMaxMessagesRecvByteBufAllocator	Default implementation of MaxMessagesRecvByteBufAllocator which respects ChannelConfig.isAutoRead() and also prevents overflow.
DefaultMessageSizeEstimator	Default MessageSizeEstimator implementation which supports the estimation of the size of ByteBuf, ByteBufHolder and FileRegion.
DefaultSelectStrategyFactory	Factory which uses the default select strategy.
DelegatingChannelPromiseNotifier
EventLoop	Will handle all the I/O operations for a Channel once registered.
EventLoopException	Special ChannelException which will be thrown by EventLoop and EventLoopGroup implementations when an error occurs.
EventLoopGroup	Special EventExecutorGroup which allows registering Channels that get processed for later selection during the event loop.
EventLoopTaskQueueFactory	Deprecated. Not used anymore by new IoEventLoopGroup and IoEventLoop implementations
FileRegion	A region of a file that is sent via a Channel which supports zero-copy file transfer.
FixedRecvByteBufAllocator	The RecvByteBufAllocator that always yields the same buffer size prediction.
IoEvent	An IO event that is dispatched to an IoHandle as a result of a previous submitted IoOps.
IoEventLoop	EventLoop that allows to register / deregister IoHandle instances.
IoEventLoopGroup	EventLoopGroup for IoEventLoops.
IoHandle	A handle that can be registered to an IoHandler.
IoHandler	Handles IO dispatching for an ThreadAwareExecutor.
IoHandlerContext	The context for an IoHandler that is run by an ThreadAwareExecutor.
IoHandlerFactory	Factory for IoHandler instances.
IoOps	An IO op that can be submitted to an IoRegistration via IoRegistration.submit(IoOps). // * These submitted IoOps will result in IoEvents on the related IoHandle.
IoRegistration	A registration for IO.
ManualIoEventLoop	IoEventLoop implementation that is owned by the user and so needs to be driven by the user manually with the given Thread.
MaxBytesRecvByteBufAllocator	RecvByteBufAllocator that limits a read operation based upon a maximum value per individual read and a maximum amount when a read operation is attempted by the event loop.
MaxMessagesRecvByteBufAllocator	RecvByteBufAllocator that limits the number of read operations that will be attempted when a read operation is attempted by the event loop.
MessageSizeEstimator	Responsible to estimate the size of a message.
MessageSizeEstimator.Handle
MultithreadEventLoopGroup	Abstract base class for EventLoopGroup implementations that handles their tasks with multiple threads at the same time.
MultiThreadIoEventLoopGroup	IoEventLoopGroup implementation that will handle its tasks with multiple threads.
PendingWriteQueue	A queue of write operations which are pending for later execution.
PreferHeapByteBufAllocator	Wraps another ByteBufAllocator and use heapbuffers everywhere except when a direct buffer is explicit requested.
RecvByteBufAllocator	Allocates a new receive buffer whose capacity is probably large enough to read all inbound data and small enough not to waste its space.
RecvByteBufAllocator.DelegatingHandle	A RecvByteBufAllocator.Handle which delegates all call to some other RecvByteBufAllocator.Handle.
RecvByteBufAllocator.ExtendedHandle
RecvByteBufAllocator.Handle	Deprecated. Use RecvByteBufAllocator.ExtendedHandle.
ReflectiveChannelFactory<T extends Channel>	A ChannelFactory that instantiates a new Channel by invoking its default constructor reflectively.
SelectStrategy	Select strategy interface.
SelectStrategyFactory	Factory that creates a new SelectStrategy every time.
ServerChannel	A Channel that accepts an incoming connection attempt and creates its child Channels by accepting them.
ServerChannelRecvByteBufAllocator	MaxMessagesRecvByteBufAllocator implementation which should be used for ServerChannels.
SimpleChannelInboundHandler<I>	ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter which allows to explicit only handle a specific type of messages.
SimpleUserEventChannelHandler<I>	ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter which allows to conveniently only handle a specific type of user events.
SingleThreadEventLoop	Abstract base class for EventLoops that execute all its submitted tasks in a single thread.
SingleThreadEventLoop.ChannelsReadOnlyIterator<T extends Channel>
SingleThreadIoEventLoop	IoEventLoop implementation that execute all its submitted tasks in a single thread using the provided IoHandler.
ThreadPerChannelEventLoop	Deprecated. this will be remove in the next-major release.
ThreadPerChannelEventLoopGroup	Deprecated. this will be remove in the next-major release.
VoidChannelPromise
WriteBufferWaterMark	WriteBufferWaterMark is used to set low water mark and high water mark for the write buffer.