Pipe

public abstract class Pipe
extends Object

java.lang.Object
   ↳ java.nio.channels.Pipe


A pair of channels that implements a unidirectional pipe.

A pipe consists of a pair of channels: A writable sink channel and a readable source channel. Once some bytes are written to the sink channel they can be read from the source channel in exactly the order in which they were written.

Whether or not a thread writing bytes to a pipe will block until another thread reads those bytes, or some previously-written bytes, from the pipe is system-dependent and therefore unspecified. Many pipe implementations will buffer up to a certain number of bytes between the sink and source channels, but such buffering should not be assumed.

Summary

Nested classes

class Pipe.SinkChannel

A channel representing the writable end of a Pipe

class Pipe.SourceChannel

A channel representing the readable end of a Pipe

Protected constructors

Pipe()

Initializes a new instance of this class.

Public methods

static Pipe open()

Opens a pipe.

abstract Pipe.SinkChannel sink()

Returns this pipe's sink channel.

abstract Pipe.SourceChannel source()

Returns this pipe's source channel.

Inherited methods

Protected constructors

Pipe

Added in API level 1
protected Pipe ()

Initializes a new instance of this class.

Public methods

open

Added in API level 1
public static Pipe open ()

Opens a pipe.

The new pipe is created by invoking the openPipe method of the system-wide default SelectorProvider object.

Returns
Pipe A new pipe

Throws
IOException If an I/O error occurs

sink

Added in API level 1
public abstract Pipe.SinkChannel sink ()

Returns this pipe's sink channel.

Returns
Pipe.SinkChannel This pipe's sink channel

source

Added in API level 1
public abstract Pipe.SourceChannel source ()

Returns this pipe's source channel.

Returns
Pipe.SourceChannel This pipe's source channel