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Motivation: There are many use cases where other objects will have fields that are buffers. Since buffers are reference counted, their life cycle needs to be managed carefully. Modification: Add the abstract BufHolder, and the concrete sub-class BufRef, as neat building blocks for building other classes that contain field references to buffers. The behaviours of closed/sent buffers have also been specified in tests, and tightened up in the code. Result: It is now easier to create classes/objects that wrap buffers.
Netty Incubator Buffer API
This repository is incubating a new buffer API proposed for Netty 5.
Building and Testing
Short version: just run make.
The project currently relies on snapshot versions of the Panama Foreign fork of OpenJDK.
This allows us to test out the must recent version of the jdk.incubator.foreign APIs, but also make building and local development more involved.
To simplify things, we have a Docker based build, controlled via a Makefile with the following commands:
image– build the docker image. This includes building a snapshot of OpenJDK, and download all relevant Maven dependencies.test– run all tests in a docker container. This impliesimage. The container is automatically deleted afterwards.dbg– drop into a shell in the build container, without running the build itself. The debugging container is not deleted afterwards.clean– remote the debugging container created bydbg.build– build binaries and run all tests in a container, and copy thetargetdirectory out of the container afterwards. This is the default build target.