AllocationType (Netty API Reference (5.0.0.Alpha4))

All Known Implementing Classes:

StandardAllocationTypes, WrappingAllocation
```
public interface AllocationType
```
An object used by buffer allocators to communicate desirable properties of an allocation to a memory manager, such as whether an allocation should be off-heap.
Standard implementations of this interface can be found in StandardAllocationTypes.

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  boolean isDirect()

- Method Detail
  - isDirect
```
boolean isDirect()
```
    Returns:
    
    true if this allocation type produces off-heap, or direct buffers. Otherwise false, if the buffers are on-heap.