view java/src/uk/ac/qmul/eecs/ccmi/network/Protocol.java @ 0:78b7fc5391a2

first import, outcome of NIME 2014 hackaton

/*  
 CCmI Editor - A Collaborative Cross-Modal Diagram Editing Tool
  
 Copyright (C) 2011  Queen Mary University of London (http://ccmi.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/)

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/  

package uk.ac.qmul.eecs.ccmi.network;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;

/**
 * Objects implementing the {@code Protocol} interface will take care of 
 * the underlying communication protocol used over TCP/IP sockets.   
 *
 */
public interface Protocol {
	void send(SocketChannel channel, Command cmd) throws IOException;
	
	void send(SocketChannel channel, Reply reply) throws IOException;
	
	void send(SocketChannel channel, LockMessage lock) throws IOException;
	
	void send(SocketChannel channel, AwarenessMessage awareMsg) throws IOException;
	
	Reply receiveReply(SocketChannel channel) throws IOException;
	
	LockMessage receiveLockMessage(SocketChannel channel) throws IOException;
	
	Message receiveMessage(SocketChannel channel) throws IOException;

}