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1   /*
2    *  Copyright 2006 Simon Raess
3    *
4    *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    *
8    *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9    * 
10   *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11   *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12   *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13   *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14   *  limitations under the License.
15   */
16  package net.sf.beep4j.internal.tcp;
17  
18  import net.sf.beep4j.Message;
19  
20  /**
21   * Controller object that knows about the channel's send and receive
22   * buffers. It's main purpose is sending SEQ frames when the controller
23   * thinks that's necessary as well as to fragment / queue outgoing
24   * messages to respect the window of the other peer.
25   * 
26   * @author Simon Raess
27   */
28  public interface ChannelController {
29  	
30  	/**
31  	 * To be invoked whenever a SEQ frame is received to update the sender
32  	 * window. The window start will be placed at <var>ackno</var> and
33  	 * the size will be updated to <var>size</var>. Note that the position
34  	 * will remain unaffected. If ackno is larger than the window size
35  	 * the communication with the other peer should be stopped as the
36  	 * peers lost the synchronization.
37  	 * 
38  	 * @param ackno the acknowledged sequence number
39  	 * @param size the size of the window
40  	 */
41  	void updateSendWindow(long ackno, int size);
42  	
43  	/**
44  	 * Send an ANS message with the given messageNumber and answerNumber on
45  	 * the channel of this controller.
46  	 * 
47  	 * @param messageNumber the message number of the message
48  	 * @param answerNumber the answer number of the message
49  	 * @param message the Message to be sent
50  	 */
51  	void sendANS(int messageNumber, int answerNumber, Message message);
52  	
53  	/**
54  	 * Sends an NUL message with the given messageNumber on the channel
55  	 * of this controller.
56  	 * 
57  	 * @param messageNumber the message number of the Message
58  	 */
59  	void sendNUL(int messageNumber);
60  	
61  	/**
62  	 * Sends an ERR message with the given messageNumber on the channel
63  	 * of this controller.
64  	 * 
65  	 * @param messageNumber the message number of the Message
66  	 * @param message the Message to be sent
67  	 */
68  	void sendERR(int messageNumber, Message message);
69  
70  	/**
71  	 * Sends an MSG message with the given messageNumber on the channel
72  	 * of this controller.
73  	 * 
74  	 * @param messageNumber the message number of the Message
75  	 * @param message the Message to be sent
76  	 */
77  	void sendMSG(int messageNumber, Message message);
78  
79  	/**
80  	 * Sends an RPY message with the given messageNumber on the channel
81  	 * of this controller.
82  	 * 
83  	 * @param messageNumber the message number of the Message
84  	 * @param message the Message to be sent
85  	 */
86  	void sendRPY(int messageNumber, Message message);
87  
88  	/**
89  	 * <p>Validation of the sequence number according to the BEEP specification section
90  	 * 2.2.1.1.</p>
91  	 * 
92  	 * <p>A frame is poorly formed if the value of the sequence number doesn't 
93  	 * correspond to the expected value for the associated channel.</p>
94  	 * 
95  	 * <p>Further, this method checks that the payload size is not greater than
96  	 * the remaining buffer space.</p>
97  	 */
98  	void checkFrame(long seqno, int payloadSize);
99  	
100 	/**
101 	 * Notifies the controller that the frame with sequence number <var>seqno</var>
102 	 * and size <var>size</var> has been completely received.
103 	 * 
104 	 * @param seqno the sequence number of the frame
105 	 * @param size the size of the frame
106 	 */
107 	void frameReceived(long seqno, int size);
108 
109 }