Interface Server

All Known Implementing Classes:
ContainerServer, ProcessorServer
public interface Server
The Server interface represents a handler that is used to process Socket objects. Implementations of this object will read HTTP requests for the provided sockets and dispatch the requests for processing by the core protocol handler.

The intended use of a Server is that it be used in conjunction with a Container object, which acts as the primary protocol handler for a server. Typically the server will deliver callbacks to a container with both Request and Response objects encapsulating the transaction.

Core responsibilities of the server are to manage connections, to ensure that all HTTP requests are collected, and to dispatch the collected requests to an appropriate handler. It is also required to manage multiplexing such that many connections can be processed concurrently without a high latency period.

Author:
Niall Gallagher

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    void
    process(Socket socket)
    Used to process the Socket which is a full duplex communication link that may contain several HTTP requests.
    void
    stop()
    This method is used to stop the Server such that it will accept no more sockets.

  • Method Details

    • process

      void process(Socket socket) throws IOException
      Used to process the Socket which is a full duplex communication link that may contain several HTTP requests. This will be used to read the requests from the Socket and to pass these requests to a Container for processing.

      Typical usage of this method is to accept multiple sockets objects, each representing a unique HTTP channel to the client, and process requests from those sockets concurrently.

      Parameters:
      socket - this is the connected HTTP socket to process
      Throws:
      IOException

    • stop

      void stop() throws IOException
      This method is used to stop the Server such that it will accept no more sockets. Stopping the server ensures that all resources occupied will be released. This is required so that all threads are stopped, and all memory is released.

      Typically this method is called once all connections to the server have been stopped. As a final act of shutting down the entire server all threads must be stopped, this allows collection of unused memory and the closing of file and socket resources.

      Throws:
      IOException