Package org.eclipse.jetty.client.api

Interface Connection

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.AutoCloseable, java.io.Closeable

All Known Implementing Classes:

HttpConnection, HttpConnectionOverHTTP

public interface Connection
extends java.io.Closeable

Connection represent a connection to a Destination and allow applications to send requests via send(Request, Response.CompleteListener).

Connections are normally pooled by Destinations, but unpooled Connections may be created by applications that want to do their own connection management via Destination.newConnection(Promise) and close().

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	close()
boolean	isClosed()
void	send(Request request, Response.CompleteListener listener)	Sends a request with an associated response listener.

Method Detail

send

void send(Request request,
          Response.CompleteListener listener)

Sends a request with an associated response listener.

Request.send(Response.CompleteListener) will eventually call this method to send the request. It is exposed to allow applications to send requests via unpooled connections.

Parameters:

request - the request to send

listener - the response listener

close

void close()

Specified by:

close in interface java.lang.AutoCloseable

Specified by:

close in interface java.io.Closeable

isClosed

boolean isClosed()

Returns:

whether this connection has been closed

See Also:

close()