Overview | Package | Class | Use | Tree | Deprecated | Index | Help
| Java™ Platform Standard Ed. 6
PREV CLASS NEXT CLASS | FRAMES NO FRAMES
SUMMARY: NESTED | FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD | DETAIL: FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD

## java.nio.channels
Class Pipe

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

    public abstract class Pipe

extends Object

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 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.

Since:
  1.4

Nested Class Summary
`static class` | `Pipe.SinkChannel` A channel representing the writable end of a `Pipe`.
`static class` | `Pipe.SourceChannel` A channel representing the readable end of a `Pipe`.

Constructor Summary
`protected` | `Pipe()` Initializes a new instance of this class.

Method Summary
`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.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### Pipe

    protected Pipe()

  Initializes a new instance of this class.

Method Detail

### source

    public abstract Pipe.SourceChannel source()

  Returns this pipe's source channel.

  Returns:
    This pipe's source channel

### sink

    public abstract Pipe.SinkChannel sink()

  Returns this pipe's sink channel.

  Returns:
    This pipe's sink channel

### open

    public static Pipe open()
                     throws IOException

  Opens a pipe.

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

  Returns:
    A new pipe
  Throws:
    `IOException` - If an I/O error occurs

Overview | Package | Class | Use | Tree | Deprecated | Index | Help
| Java™ Platform Standard Ed. 6
PREV CLASS NEXT CLASS | FRAMES NO FRAMES
SUMMARY: NESTED | FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD | DETAIL: FIELD | CONSTR | METHOD

Submit a bug or feature
For further API reference and developer documentation, see Java SE Developer Documentation. That documentation contains more detailed, developer-targeted descriptions, with conceptual overviews, definitions of terms, workarounds, and working code examples.

Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Also see the documentation redistribution policy.