Package java.nio.channels

Interface InterruptibleChannel

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Channel, Closeable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractInterruptibleChannel, AbstractSelectableChannel, DatagramChannel, FileChannel, Pipe.SinkChannel, Pipe.SourceChannel, SelectableChannel, ServerSocketChannel, SocketChannel

public interface InterruptibleChannel
extends Channel

Channels that implement this interface can be asynchronously closed and interrupted.

A channel that can be asynchronously closed permits that a thread blocked on an I/O operation (the I/O thread) can be released by another thread calling the channel's close() method. The I/O thread will throw an AsynchronousCloseException and the channel will be closed.

A channel that is interruptible permits a thread blocked on an I/O operation (the I/O thread) to be interrupted by another thread (by invoking Thread.interrupt() on the I/O thread). When the I/O thread is interrupted it will throw a ClosedByInterruptException, it will have its interrupted status set and the channel will be closed. If the I/O thread attempts to make an I/O call with the interrupt status set the call will immediately fail with a ClosedByInterruptException.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	close()	Closes the channel.

Methods inherited from interface java.nio.channels.Channel

isOpen

Method Detail

close

void close()
    throws IOException

Closes the channel.

Any threads that are blocked on I/O operations on this channel will be interrupted with an AsynchronousCloseException. Otherwise, this method behaves the same as defined in the Channel interface.

Specified by:

close in interface AutoCloseable

Specified by:

close in interface Channel

Specified by:

close in interface Closeable

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs while closing the channel.