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Author SHA1 Message Date
Trustin Lee
14158070bf Revamp the core API to reduce memory footprint and consumption
The API changes made so far turned out to increase the memory footprint
and consumption while our intention was actually decreasing them.

Memory consumption issue:

When there are many connections which does not exchange data frequently,
the old Netty 4 API spent a lot more memory than 3 because it always
allocates per-handler buffer for each connection unless otherwise
explicitly stated by a user.  In a usual real world load, a client
doesn't always send requests without pausing, so the idea of having a
buffer whose life cycle if bound to the life cycle of a connection
didn't work as expected.

Memory footprint issue:

The old Netty 4 API decreased overall memory footprint by a great deal
in many cases.  It was mainly because the old Netty 4 API did not
allocate a new buffer and event object for each read.  Instead, it
created a new buffer for each handler in a pipeline.  This works pretty
well as long as the number of handlers in a pipeline is only a few.
However, for a highly modular application with many handlers which
handles connections which lasts for relatively short period, it actually
makes the memory footprint issue much worse.

Changes:

All in all, this is about retaining all the good changes we made in 4 so
far such as better thread model and going back to the way how we dealt
with message events in 3.

To fix the memory consumption/footprint issue mentioned above, we made a
hard decision to break the backward compatibility again with the
following changes:

- Remove MessageBuf
- Merge Buf into ByteBuf
- Merge ChannelInboundByte/MessageHandler and ChannelStateHandler into ChannelInboundHandler
  - Similar changes were made to the adapter classes
- Merge ChannelOutboundByte/MessageHandler and ChannelOperationHandler into ChannelOutboundHandler
  - Similar changes were made to the adapter classes
- Introduce MessageList which is similar to `MessageEvent` in Netty 3
- Replace inboundBufferUpdated(ctx) with messageReceived(ctx, MessageList)
- Replace flush(ctx, promise) with write(ctx, MessageList, promise)
- Remove ByteToByteEncoder/Decoder/Codec
  - Replaced by MessageToByteEncoder<ByteBuf>, ByteToMessageDecoder<ByteBuf>, and ByteMessageCodec<ByteBuf>
- Merge EmbeddedByteChannel and EmbeddedMessageChannel into EmbeddedChannel
- Add SimpleChannelInboundHandler which is sometimes more useful than
  ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter
- Bring back Channel.isWritable() from Netty 3
- Add ChannelInboundHandler.channelWritabilityChanges() event
- Add RecvByteBufAllocator configuration property
  - Similar to ReceiveBufferSizePredictor in Netty 3
  - Some existing configuration properties such as
    DatagramChannelConfig.receivePacketSize is gone now.
- Remove suspend/resumeIntermediaryDeallocation() in ByteBuf

This change would have been impossible without @normanmaurer's help. He
fixed, ported, and improved many parts of the changes.
2013-06-10 16:10:39 +09:00
Norman Maurer
81e3c1719a [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration 2013-05-18 09:59:13 +02:00
Norman Maurer
99caefdf39 [maven-release-plugin] prepare release netty-4.0.0.CR3 2013-05-18 09:57:11 +02:00
Norman Maurer
c43950a03f [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration 2013-05-08 18:19:51 +02:00
Norman Maurer
ae76502040 [maven-release-plugin] prepare release netty-4.0.0.CR2 2013-05-08 18:19:38 +02:00
Norman Maurer
59012390f6 Fix version numbering 2013-03-25 08:01:11 +01:00
Norman Maurer
7d7b676eeb [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration 2013-03-22 15:20:35 +01:00
Norman Maurer
60fc7dac4d [maven-release-plugin] prepare release netty-4.0.0.CR1 2013-03-22 15:20:11 +01:00
Trustin Lee
2a87950784 [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration 2013-03-16 18:41:36 +09:00
Trustin Lee
adfb29330b [maven-release-plugin] prepare release netty-4.0.0.Beta3 2013-03-16 18:40:59 +09:00
Trustin Lee
49aa907bd0 [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration 2013-02-26 16:55:07 -08:00
Trustin Lee
5026c2f359 [maven-release-plugin] prepare release netty-4.0.0.Beta2 2013-02-26 16:54:53 -08:00
Trustin Lee
d68a04a879 [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration 2013-02-14 12:56:24 -08:00
Trustin Lee
59e638f8f5 [maven-release-plugin] prepare release netty-4.0.0.Beta1 2013-02-14 12:56:15 -08:00
Norman Maurer
fd75615d7a [#870] Convert all modules into osgi bundles 2013-02-06 07:57:11 +01:00
Trustin Lee
d5a7057c3f Fix inconsistent module name 2013-01-09 23:37:10 +09:00
Norman Maurer
ccb5409f58 [#884] Split SCTP transport into extra module 2013-01-03 22:19:06 +01:00
Trustin Lee
528b5c4328 Removed the modules that are not part of 4.0.0.Alpha1
- Will add them back before Beta1 is out
2012-05-27 19:28:28 -07:00
norman
4eac8f6b70 Use jUnit Assume to "ignore" SCTP tests on non-unix operation systems 2012-04-02 07:34:15 +02:00
Norman Maurer
3decdeb0b0 Exclude com.sun.nio.* from the generated jar 2012-03-30 21:54:25 +02:00
Norman Maurer
43db6d7050 Enable/Disable sctp tests based on the detected OS 2012-03-30 21:35:58 +02:00
Trustin Lee
fd0b0a4e2b Code cleanup 2012-03-30 12:48:28 +09:00
Jestan Nirojan
0bb1fe2656 Skipped SCTP Transport tests in the build (Java SCTP is only available for Linux and Solaris) 2012-02-19 13:30:24 +05:30
Jestan Nirojan
22a37e548e 1)implemented defragmenting sctp frame decoder 2)implemented sctp netty testsuite 2012-02-12 11:42:14 +05:30
Jestan Nirojan
fe3a480fb9 1)renamed sctp payload to sctp frame 2)added sctp codec, handler classes 2012-02-11 19:16:55 +05:30
Trustin Lee
8663716d38 Issue #60: Make the project multi-module
Split the project into the following modules:
* common
* buffer
* codec
* codec-http
* transport
* transport-*
* handler
* example
* testsuite (integration tests that involve 2+ modules)
* all (does nothing yet, but will make it generate netty.jar)

This commit also fixes the compilation errors with transport-sctp on
non-Linux systems.  It will at least compile without complaints.
2011-12-28 19:44:04 +09:00