replicationmessage.java

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package rice.p2p.replication.messaging;

import java.io.IOException;

import rice.p2p.commonapi.*;
import rice.p2p.commonapi.rawserialization.*;
import rice.p2p.replication.*;

/**
 * @(#) ReplicationMessage.java This class the abstraction of a message used
 * internally by replication.
 *
 * @version $Id: ReplicationMessage.java 3274 2006-05-15 16:17:47Z jeffh $
 * @author Alan Mislove
 */
public abstract class ReplicationMessage implements RawMessage {

  // the source of this message
  /**
   * DESCRIBE THE FIELD
   */
  protected NodeHandle source;

  // serialver for backward compatibility
  private final static long serialVersionUID = 2121558100279943464L;

  /**
   * Constructor which takes a unique integer Id
   *
   * @param source The source address
   */
  protected ReplicationMessage(NodeHandle source) {
    this.source = source;
  }

  /**
   * Constructor for ReplicationMessage.
   *
   * @param buf DESCRIBE THE PARAMETER
   * @param endpoint DESCRIBE THE PARAMETER
   * @exception IOException DESCRIBE THE EXCEPTION
   */
  public ReplicationMessage(InputBuffer buf, Endpoint endpoint) throws IOException {
    source = endpoint.readNodeHandle(buf);
  }

  /**
   * Method which should return the priority level of this message. The messages
   * can range in priority from 0 (highest priority) to Integer.MAX_VALUE
   * (lowest) - when sending messages across the wire, the queue is sorted by
   * message priority. If the queue reaches its limit, the lowest priority
   * messages are discarded. Thus, applications which are very verbose should
   * have LOW_PRIORITY or lower, and applications which are somewhat quiet are
   * allowed to have MEDIUM_PRIORITY or possibly even HIGH_PRIORITY.
   *
   * @return This message's priority
   */
  public byte getPriority() {
    return MEDIUM_PRIORITY;
  }

  /**
   * Method which returns this messages' source address
   *
   * @return The source of this message
   */
  public NodeHandle getSource() {
    return source;
  }

  /**
   * DESCRIBE THE METHOD
   *
   * @param buf DESCRIBE THE PARAMETER
   * @exception IOException DESCRIBE THE EXCEPTION
   */
  public void serialize(OutputBuffer buf) throws IOException {
    source.serialize(buf);
  }
}