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package org.opends.server.synchronization.protocol;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.SocketException;
import java.util.zip.DataFormatException;

/**
 * The ProtocolSession interface should be implemented by a class that
 * implement the send/reception part of the Multimaster synchronization
 * protocol.
 *
 * This interface is designed to make easy the move from one format
 * of the SynchronizationMessage on the wire to another format.
 */
public interface ProtocolSession
{

  /**
   * This method is called when the session with the remote must be closed.
   * This object won't be used anymore after this method is called.
   *
   * @throws IOException If an error happen during the close process.
   */
  public abstract void close() throws IOException;

  /**
   * This method is called when a SynchronizationMessage must be sent to
   * the remote entity.
   *
   * It can be called by several threads and must implement appropriate
   * synchronization (typically, this method or a part of it should be
   * synchronized).
   *
   * @param msg The SynchronizationMessage that must be sent.
   * @throws IOException If an IO error happen during the publish process.
   */
  public abstract void publish(SynchronizationMessage msg)
                  throws IOException;

  /**
   * Attempt to receive a SynchronizationMessage.
   * This method should block the calling thread until a
   * SynchronizationMessage is available or until an error condition.
   *
   * This method can only be called by a single thread and therefore does not
   * neet to implement any synchronization.
   *
   * @return The SynchronizationMessage that was received.
   * @throws IOException When error happened durin IO process.
   * @throws ClassNotFoundException When the data received does extend the
   *         SynchronizationMessage class.
   * @throws DataFormatException When the data received is not formatted as a
   *         SynchronizationMessage.
   */
  public abstract SynchronizationMessage receive()
                  throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException,
                         DataFormatException;

  /**
   * Retrieve the IP address of the remote server.
   *
   * @return The IP address of the remote server.
   */
  public abstract String getRemoteAddress();


  /**
  * Set a timeout value.
  * With this option set to a non-zero value, calls to the receive() method
  * block for only this amount of time after which a
  * java.net.SocketTimeoutException is raised.
  * The Broker is valid and useable even after such an Exception is raised.
  *
  * @param timeout the specified timeout, in milliseconds.
  * @throws SocketException if there is an error in the underlying protocol,
  *         such as a TCP error.
  */
  public abstract void setSoTimeout(int timeout) throws SocketException;



  /**
   * Gets the time the last synchronization message was published on this
   * session.
   * @return The timestamp in milliseconds of the last message published.
   */
  public abstract long getLastPublishTime();



  /**
   * Gets the time the last synchronization message was received on this
   * session.
   * @return The timestamp in milliseconds of the last message received.
   */
  public abstract long getLastReceiveTime();
}