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Interface ChatServerNetwork

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChatServerNetworkSilent, ChatServerNetworkTask

public interface ChatServerNetwork

Interface that defines objects that provide network connectivity to a chat server.

Author:

sean

Method Summary

void	broadcastMessage(java.lang.String message) Broadcast a message to all the other chat servers
void	clientConnection(java.nio.channels.SocketChannel channel, java.lang.String sessionId) This is called when a client has connected to the chat server.
void	clientDisconnection(java.nio.channels.SocketChannel channel) This is called when a client has disconnected from the chat server This is used to modifying internal data structures that allow sendToClient[s] to work.
void	sendToClient(java.lang.String sessionId, java.lang.String message) Send a message to the connected client that has the given session id.
void	sendToClients(java.lang.String message) Send a message to all clients connected directly to the chat server

Method Detail

broadcastMessage

void broadcastMessage(java.lang.String message)
                      throws java.io.IOException

Broadcast a message to all the other chat servers

Parameters:

message -

Throws:

java.io.IOException

sendToClients

void sendToClients(java.lang.String message)

Send a message to all clients connected directly to the chat server

Parameters:

message -

sendToClient

void sendToClient(java.lang.String sessionId,
                  java.lang.String message)
                  throws java.io.IOException

Send a message to the connected client that has the given session id. This won't do anything if no connected client is using that session id.

Parameters:

sessionId -

message -

Throws:

java.io.IOException

clientConnection

void clientConnection(java.nio.channels.SocketChannel channel,
                      java.lang.String sessionId)

This is called when a client has connected to the chat server. This is used to modifying internal data structures that allow sendToClient[s] to work.

Parameters:

channel -

sessionId -

clientDisconnection

void clientDisconnection(java.nio.channels.SocketChannel channel)

This is called when a client has disconnected from the chat server This is used to modifying internal data structures that allow sendToClient[s] to work.

Parameters:

channel -