diff -r 000000000000 -r 70028c8a63fd org/sonews/daemon/ChannelWriter.java
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+++ b/org/sonews/daemon/ChannelWriter.java	Wed Aug 12 16:43:30 2009 +0200
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+/*
+ *   SONEWS News Server
+ *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
+ *
+ *   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 org.sonews.daemon;
+
+import org.sonews.util.Log;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.channels.CancelledKeyException;
+import java.nio.channels.SelectionKey;
+import java.nio.channels.Selector;
+import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+/**
+ * A Thread task that processes OP_WRITE events for SocketChannels.
+ * @author Christian Lins
+ * @since sonews/0.5.0
+ */
+class ChannelWriter extends AbstractDaemon
+{
+
+  private static ChannelWriter instance = new ChannelWriter();
+
+  /**
+   * @return Returns the active ChannelWriter instance.
+   */
+  public static ChannelWriter getInstance()
+  {
+    return instance;
+  }
+  
+  private Selector selector = null;
+  
+  protected ChannelWriter()
+  {
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * @return Selector associated with this instance.
+   */
+  public Selector getSelector()
+  {
+    return this.selector;
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Sets the selector that is used by this ChannelWriter.
+   * @param selector
+   */
+  public void setSelector(final Selector selector)
+  {
+    this.selector = selector;
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Run loop.
+   */
+  @Override
+  public void run()
+  {
+    assert selector != null;
+
+    while(isRunning())
+    {
+      try
+      {
+        SelectionKey   selKey        = null;
+        SocketChannel  socketChannel = null;
+        NNTPConnection connection    = null;
+
+        // select() blocks until some SelectableChannels are ready for
+        // processing. There is no need to synchronize the selector as we
+        // have only one thread per selector.
+        selector.select(); // The return value of select can be ignored
+
+        // Get list of selection keys with pending OP_WRITE events.
+        // The keySET is not thread-safe whereas the keys itself are.
+        Iterator it = selector.selectedKeys().iterator();
+
+        while (it.hasNext())
+        {
+          // We remove the first event from the set and store it for
+          // later processing.
+          selKey = (SelectionKey) it.next();
+          socketChannel = (SocketChannel) selKey.channel();
+          connection = Connections.getInstance().get(socketChannel);
+
+          it.remove();
+          if (connection != null)
+          {
+            break;
+          }
+          else
+          {
+            selKey = null;
+          }
+        }
+        
+        if (selKey != null)
+        {
+          try
+          {
+            // Process the selected key.
+            // As there is only one OP_WRITE key for a given channel, we need
+            // not to synchronize this processing to retain the order.
+            processSelectionKey(connection, socketChannel, selKey);
+          }
+          catch (IOException ex)
+          {
+            Log.msg("Error writing to channel: " + ex, false);
+
+            // Cancel write events for this channel
+            selKey.cancel();
+            connection.shutdownInput();
+            connection.shutdownOutput();
+          }
+        }
+        
+        // Eventually wait for a register operation
+        synchronized(NNTPDaemon.RegisterGate) { /* do nothing */ }
+      }
+      catch(CancelledKeyException ex)
+      {
+        Log.msg("ChannelWriter.run(): " + ex, true);
+      }
+      catch(Exception ex)
+      {
+        ex.printStackTrace();
+      }
+    } // while(isRunning())
+  }
+  
+  private void processSelectionKey(final NNTPConnection connection,
+    final SocketChannel socketChannel, final SelectionKey selKey)
+    throws InterruptedException, IOException
+  {
+    assert connection != null;
+    assert socketChannel != null;
+    assert selKey != null;
+    assert selKey.isWritable();
+
+    // SocketChannel is ready for writing
+    if(selKey.isValid())
+    {
+      // Lock the socket channel
+      synchronized(socketChannel)
+      {
+        // Get next output buffer
+        ByteBuffer buf = connection.getOutputBuffer();
+        if(buf == null)
+        {
+          // Currently we have nothing to write, so we stop the writeable
+          // events until we have something to write to the socket channel
+          //selKey.cancel();
+          selKey.interestOps(0);
+          return;
+        }
+ 
+        while(buf != null) // There is data to be send
+        {
+          // Write buffer to socket channel; this method does not block
+          if(socketChannel.write(buf) <= 0)
+          {
+            // Perhaps there is data to be written, but the SocketChannel's
+            // buffer is full, so we stop writing to until the next event.
+            break;
+          }
+          else
+          {
+            // Retrieve next buffer if available; method may return the same
+            // buffer instance if it still have some bytes remaining
+            buf = connection.getOutputBuffer();
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      Log.msg("Invalid OP_WRITE key: " + selKey, false);
+
+      if (socketChannel.socket().isClosed())
+      {
+        connection.shutdownInput();
+        connection.shutdownOutput();
+        socketChannel.close();
+        Log.msg("Connection closed.", true);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  
+}