io.continual.messaging

Interface ContinualMessagePublisher

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Closeable

All Known Implementing Classes:

ContinualMsgPubSvc, DevNullPublisher, LoggerPublisher

public interface ContinualMessagePublisher
extends Closeable

An abstraction of a message publisher for this system. A publisher contains message sinks.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	ContinualMessagePublisher.TopicUnavailableException Topic unavailable exception is thrown when the topic cannot be used at this time.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	flush() For implementations with batching, flush the pending messages.
ContinualMessageSink	getTopic(String topic) Get a message sink for a specific topic.

Methods inherited from interface java.io.Closeable

close

Method Detail

getTopic

ContinualMessageSink getTopic(String topic)
                       throws ContinualMessagePublisher.TopicUnavailableException

Get a message sink for a specific topic.

Parameters:

topic -

Returns:

a message sink

Throws:

ContinualMessagePublisher.TopicUnavailableException - if the topic name is not supported or somehow not available

flush

void flush()
    throws MessagePublishException

For implementations with batching, flush the pending messages.

Throws:

MessagePublishException