org.logicalcobwebs.concurrent
Interface BoundedChannel

All Superinterfaces:

Channel, Puttable, Takable

public interface BoundedChannel
extends Channel

A channel that is known to have a capacity, signifying that put operations may block when the capacity is reached. Various implementations may have intrinsically hard-wired capacities, capacities that are fixed upon construction, or dynamically adjustable capacities.

See Also:

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Method Summary

int	capacity() Return the maximum number of elements that can be held.

Methods inherited from interface org.logicalcobwebs.concurrent.Channel

offer, peek, poll, put, take

Method Detail

capacity

int capacity()

Return the maximum number of elements that can be held.

Returns:

the capacity of this channel.