Interface BroadcastIPBabelChannel

All Superinterfaces:

BabelChannel, IPBabelChannel

All Known Implementing Classes:

UDPBabelChannel

public interface BroadcastIPBabelChannel
extends IPBabelChannel

Channel interface for IP channels supporting local network broadcast or multicast operations.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	multicast(BabelMessage message)	Multicast for all the connected local network nodes.

Methods inherited from interface BabelChannel

connect, disconnect, getInner, isConnected, send, sendEphemeral, shutdown

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	connect(BabelNode peer)	Connect to another Babel runtime.
void	disconnect(BabelNode peer)	Closes the connection to peer.
default BabelChannel	getInner()	Gets this channel or returns the inner channel if this instance is a wrapper.
boolean	isConnected(BabelNode peer)	Returns true if a connection to peer is currently open on this channel.
void	send(BabelNode peer, BabelMessage message)	Sends a message through this channel to the given peer using a persistent connection.
void	sendEphemeral(BabelNode peer, BabelMessage message)	Sends a message to peer without establishing a persistent connection.
void	shutdown()	Releases all resources held by this channel, closing any open connections.

Methods inherited from interface IPBabelChannel

getBindingAddress

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
InetSocketAddress	getBindingAddress()	Returns the local IP socket address to which this channel is bound.

Method Details

multicast

void multicast(BabelMessage message)

Multicast for all the connected local network nodes. The multicast address must be set during the instantiation of the channel. The channel should also be listening in the same multicast address and port.

Parameters:

message - message to be broadcasted.

Throws:

UnsupportedOperationException - if the channel doesn't support multicast or isn't supported at all.