Class AbstractMessageSender

    • Field Detail

      • localPeerID

        protected PeerID localPeerID
        Represents local PeerID. This value should be assigned in real MessageSender's implementation correspoinding to the specific transport layer
    • Constructor Detail

      • AbstractMessageSender

        public AbstractMessageSender()
    • Method Detail

      • send

        public boolean send​(PeerID peerID,
                            Message message)
                     throws IOException
        Sends the given Message to the destination
        Specified by:
        send in interface MessageSender
        Parameters:
        peerID - the destination PeerID. null is not allowed
        message - a message which is sent to the peer
        Returns:
        true if the message is sent to the destination successfully, otherwise false
        Throws:
        IOException - if I/O error occurs or given parameters are not valid
      • doSend

        protected abstract boolean doSend​(PeerID peerID,
                                          Message message)
                                   throws IOException
        Sends the given Message to the destination
        Parameters:
        peerID - the destination PeerID. null is not allowed
        message - a message which is sent to the peer
        Returns:
        true if the message is sent to the destination successfully, otherwise false
        Throws:
        IOException - if I/O error occurs or given parameters are not valid