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+//
+// ========================================================================
+// Copyright (c) 1995-2014 Mort Bay Consulting Pty. Ltd.
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+// are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+// and Apache License v2.0 which accompanies this distribution.
+//
+// The Eclipse Public License is available at
+// http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+//
+// The Apache License v2.0 is available at
+// http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php
+//
+// You may elect to redistribute this code under either of these licenses.
+// ========================================================================
+//
+
+package org.eclipse.jetty.io;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.Callback;
+
+/**
+ * <p>A {@link Connection} is associated to an {@link EndPoint} so that I/O events
+ * happening on the {@link EndPoint} can be processed by the {@link Connection}.</p>
+ * <p>A typical implementation of {@link Connection} overrides {@link #onOpen()} to
+ * {@link EndPoint#fillInterested(Callback) set read interest} on the {@link EndPoint},
+ * and when the {@link EndPoint} signals read readyness, this {@link Connection} can
+ * read bytes from the network and interpret them.</p>
+ */
+public interface Connection extends Closeable
+{
+ public void addListener(Listener listener);
+
+ /**
+ * <p>Callback method invoked when this {@link Connection} is opened.</p>
+ * <p>Creators of the connection implementation are responsible for calling this method.</p>
+ */
+ public void onOpen();
+
+ /**
+ * <p>Callback method invoked when this {@link Connection} is closed.</p>
+ * <p>Creators of the connection implementation are responsible for calling this method.</p>
+ */
+ public void onClose();
+
+ /**
+ * @return the {@link EndPoint} associated with this {@link Connection}
+ */
+ public EndPoint getEndPoint();
+
+ /**
+ * <p>Performs a logical close of this connection.</p>
+ * <p>For simple connections, this may just mean to delegate the close to the associated
+ * {@link EndPoint} but, for example, SSL connections should write the SSL close message
+ * before closing the associated {@link EndPoint}.</p>
+ */
+ @Override
+ public void close();
+
+ public int getMessagesIn();
+ public int getMessagesOut();
+ public long getBytesIn();
+ public long getBytesOut();
+ public long getCreatedTimeStamp();
+
+
+ public interface Listener
+ {
+ public void onOpened(Connection connection);
+
+ public void onClosed(Connection connection);
+
+ public static class Adapter implements Listener
+ {
+ @Override
+ public void onOpened(Connection connection)
+ {
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void onClosed(Connection connection)
+ {
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}