001/* ScatteringByteChannel.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038package java.nio.channels; 039 040import java.io.IOException; 041import java.nio.ByteBuffer; 042 043 044public interface ScatteringByteChannel extends ReadableByteChannel 045{ 046 /** 047 * Reads a sequence of bytes from this channel into a subsequence of the 048 * given buffers 049 * 050 * @exception AsynchronousCloseException If another thread closes this 051 * channel while the write operation is in progress 052 * @exception ClosedByInterruptException If another thread interrupts the 053 * current thread while the write operation is in progress, thereby closing 054 * the channel and setting the current thread's interrupt status 055 * @exception ClosedChannelException If this channel is closed 056 * @exception IndexOutOfBoundsException If the preconditions on the offset 057 * and length parameters do not hold 058 * @exception IOException If an error occurs 059 * @exception NonReadableChannelException If this channel was not opened for 060 * reading 061 */ 062 long read(ByteBuffer[] srcs, int offset, int length) 063 throws IOException; 064 065 /** 066 * Reads a sequence of bytes from this channel into the given buffers 067 * 068 * @exception AsynchronousCloseException If another thread closes this 069 * channel while the write operation is in progress 070 * @exception ClosedByInterruptException If another thread interrupts the 071 * current thread while the write operation is in progress, thereby closing 072 * the channel and setting the current thread's interrupt status 073 * @exception ClosedChannelException If this channel is closed 074 * @exception IOException If an error occurs 075 * @exception NonReadableChannelException If this channel was not opened for 076 * reading 077 */ 078 long read(ByteBuffer[] srcs) throws IOException; 079}