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/***************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2004 - 2008 Eike Stepper, Germany.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Eike Stepper - initial API and implementation
**************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.net4j.buffer;
/**
* Provides clients with the ability to pass {@link IBuffer}s in for further buffer handling.
*
* @author Eike Stepper
*/
public interface IBufferHandler
{
/**
* Handles an {@link IBuffer} and optionally releases it. The implementor of this method takes over the ownership of
* the buffer. Care must be taken to properly {@link IBuffer#release() release} the buffer if the ownership is not
* explicitely passed to some further party.
*
* @param buffer
* The buffer to be handled and otionally released.
*/
public void handleBuffer(IBuffer buffer);
}
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