com.google.appengine.api.channel
Interface ChannelService

public interface ChannelService

ChannelService allows you to manage manage two-way connections with clients.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	createChannel(java.lang.String clientId) Creates a channel associated with the provided clientId.
ChannelMessage	parseMessage(HttpServletRequest request) Parse the incoming message in request.
void	sendMessage(ChannelMessage message) Sends a ChannelMessage to the client.

Method Detail

createChannel

java.lang.String createChannel(java.lang.String clientId)

Creates a channel associated with the provided clientId.

Parameters:

clientId - A string uniquely identifying the client that will use the returned token to connect to this channel. This string must be fewer than 64 bytes when encoded to UTF-8.

Returns:

the token the client will use to connect to this channel.

Throws:

ChannelFailureException - if there is an error encountered while communicating with the channel service.

sendMessage

void sendMessage(ChannelMessage message)

Sends a ChannelMessage to the client.

Parameters:

message - the message to be sent to all connected clients.

Throws:

ChannelFailureException - if there is an error encountered while communicating with the channel service.

parseMessage

ChannelMessage parseMessage(HttpServletRequest request)

Parse the incoming message in request. This method should only be called within a channel webhook.

Parameters:

request - the source HTTP request.

Returns:

the incoming ChannelMessage.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if the required HTTP parameters are not present.