Comparable<ByteBuffer>
public abstract sealed class MappedByteBuffer extends ByteBuffer
Mapped byte buffers are created via the FileChannel.map
method. This class extends the ByteBuffer
class with operations that are specific to memory-mapped file regions.
A mapped byte buffer and the file mapping that it represents remain valid until the buffer itself is garbage-collected.
The content of a mapped byte buffer can change at any time, for example if the content of the corresponding region of the mapped file is changed by this program or another. Whether or not such changes occur, and when they occur, is operating-system dependent and therefore unspecified.
All or part of a mapped byte buffer may become inaccessible at any time, for example if the mapped file is truncated. An attempt to access an inaccessible region of a mapped byte buffer will not change the buffer's content and will cause an unspecified exception to be thrown either at the time of the access or at some later time. It is therefore strongly recommended that appropriate precautions be taken to avoid the manipulation of a mapped file by this program, or by a concurrently running program, except to read or write the file's content.
Mapped byte buffers otherwise behave no differently than ordinary direct byte buffers.
Modifier and Type | Method | Description |
---|---|---|
final MappedByteBuffer |
clear() |
Clears this buffer. |
abstract MappedByteBuffer |
compact() |
Compacts this buffer (optional operation). |
abstract MappedByteBuffer |
duplicate() |
Creates a new byte buffer that shares this buffer's content. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
flip() |
Flips this buffer. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
force() |
Forces any changes made to this buffer's content to be written to the storage device containing the mapped file. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
force |
Forces any changes made to a region of this buffer's content to be written to the storage device containing the mapped file. |
final boolean |
isLoaded() |
Tells whether or not this buffer's content is resident in physical memory. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
limit |
Sets this buffer's limit. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
load() |
Loads this buffer's content into physical memory. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
mark() |
Sets this buffer's mark at its position. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
position |
Sets this buffer's position. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
reset() |
Resets this buffer's position to the previously-marked position. |
final MappedByteBuffer |
rewind() |
Rewinds this buffer. |
abstract MappedByteBuffer |
slice() |
Creates a new byte buffer whose content is a shared subsequence of this buffer's content. |
abstract MappedByteBuffer |
slice |
Creates a new byte buffer whose content is a shared subsequence of this buffer's content. |
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public final boolean isLoaded()
A return value of true
implies that it is highly likely that all of the data in this buffer is resident in physical memory and may therefore be accessed without incurring any virtual-memory page faults or I/O operations. A return value of false
does not necessarily imply that the buffer's content is not resident in physical memory.
The returned value is a hint, rather than a guarantee, because the underlying operating system may have paged out some of the buffer's data by the time that an invocation of this method returns.
true
if it is likely that this buffer's content is resident in physical memorypublic final MappedByteBuffer load()
This method makes a best effort to ensure that, when it returns, this buffer's content is resident in physical memory. Invoking this method may cause some number of page faults and I/O operations to occur.
public final MappedByteBuffer force()
capacity()
bytes. An invocation of this method behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation force(0,capacity())
. If the file mapped into this buffer resides on a local storage device then when this method returns it is guaranteed that all changes made to the buffer since it was created, or since this method was last invoked, will have been written to that device.
If the file does not reside on a local device then no such guarantee is made.
If this buffer was not mapped in read/write mode (FileChannel.MapMode.READ_WRITE
) then invoking this method may have no effect. In particular, the method has no effect for buffers mapped in read-only or private mapping modes. This method may or may not have an effect for implementation-specific mapping modes.
UncheckedIOException
- If an I/O error occurs writing the buffer's content to the storage device containing the mapped filepublic final MappedByteBuffer force(int index, int length)
index
in this buffer and is length
bytes. If the file mapped into this buffer resides on a local storage device then when this method returns it is guaranteed that all changes made to the selected region buffer since it was created, or since this method was last invoked, will have been written to that device. The force operation is free to write bytes that lie outside the specified region, for example to ensure that data blocks of some device-specific granularity are transferred in their entirety.
If the file does not reside on a local device then no such guarantee is made.
If this buffer was not mapped in read/write mode (FileChannel.MapMode.READ_WRITE
) then invoking this method may have no effect. In particular, the method has no effect for buffers mapped in read-only or private mapping modes. This method may or may not have an effect for implementation-specific mapping modes.
index
- The index of the first byte in the buffer region that is to be written back to storage; must be non-negative and less than capacity()
length
- The length of the region in bytes; must be non-negative and no larger than capacity() - index
IndexOutOfBoundsException
- if the preconditions on the index and length do not hold.UncheckedIOException
- If an I/O error occurs writing the buffer's content to the storage device containing the mapped filepublic final MappedByteBuffer position(int newPosition)
position
in class ByteBuffer
newPosition
- The new position value; must be non-negative and no larger than the current limitpublic final MappedByteBuffer limit(int newLimit)
limit
in class ByteBuffer
newLimit
- The new limit value; must be non-negative and no larger than this buffer's capacitypublic final MappedByteBuffer mark()
mark
in class ByteBuffer
public final MappedByteBuffer reset()
Invoking this method neither changes nor discards the mark's value.
reset
in class ByteBuffer
public final MappedByteBuffer clear()
Invoke this method before using a sequence of channel-read or put operations to fill this buffer. For example:
buf.clear(); // Prepare buffer for reading
in.read(buf); // Read data
This method does not actually erase the data in the buffer, but it is named as if it did because it will most often be used in situations in which that might as well be the case.
clear
in class ByteBuffer
public final MappedByteBuffer flip()
After a sequence of channel-read or put operations, invoke this method to prepare for a sequence of channel-write or relative get operations. For example:
buf.put(magic); // Prepend header
in.read(buf); // Read data into rest of buffer
buf.flip(); // Flip buffer
out.write(buf); // Write header + data to channel
This method is often used in conjunction with the compact
method when transferring data from one place to another.
flip
in class ByteBuffer
public final MappedByteBuffer rewind()
Invoke this method before a sequence of channel-write or get operations, assuming that the limit has already been set appropriately. For example:
out.write(buf); // Write remaining data
buf.rewind(); // Rewind buffer
buf.get(array); // Copy data into array
rewind
in class ByteBuffer
public abstract MappedByteBuffer slice()
The content of the new buffer will start at this buffer's current position. Changes to this buffer's content will be visible in the new buffer, and vice versa; the two buffers' position, limit, and mark values will be independent.
The new buffer's position will be zero, its capacity and its limit will be the number of bytes remaining in this buffer, its mark will be undefined, and its byte order will be BIG_ENDIAN
. The new buffer will be direct if, and only if, this buffer is direct, and it will be read-only if, and only if, this buffer is read-only.
Reading bytes into physical memory by invoking load()
on the returned buffer, or writing bytes to the storage device by invoking force()
on the returned buffer, will only act on the sub-range of this buffer that the returned buffer represents, namely [position(),limit())
.
slice
in class ByteBuffer
public abstract MappedByteBuffer slice(int index, int length)
The content of the new buffer will start at position index
in this buffer, and will contain length
elements. Changes to this buffer's content will be visible in the new buffer, and vice versa; the two buffers' position, limit, and mark values will be independent.
The new buffer's position will be zero, its capacity and its limit will be length
, its mark will be undefined, and its byte order will be BIG_ENDIAN
. The new buffer will be direct if, and only if, this buffer is direct, and it will be read-only if, and only if, this buffer is read-only.
Reading bytes into physical memory by invoking load()
on the returned buffer, or writing bytes to the storage device by invoking force()
on the returned buffer, will only act on the sub-range of this buffer that the returned buffer represents, namely [index,index+length)
, where index
and length
are assumed to satisfy the preconditions.
slice
in class ByteBuffer
index
- The position in this buffer at which the content of the new buffer will start; must be non-negative and no larger than limit()
length
- The number of elements the new buffer will contain; must be non-negative and no larger than limit() - index
public abstract MappedByteBuffer duplicate()
The content of the new buffer will be that of this buffer. Changes to this buffer's content will be visible in the new buffer, and vice versa; the two buffers' position, limit, and mark values will be independent.
The new buffer's capacity, limit, position, and mark values will be identical to those of this buffer, and its byte order will be BIG_ENDIAN
. The new buffer will be direct if, and only if, this buffer is direct, and it will be read-only if, and only if, this buffer is read-only.
duplicate
in class ByteBuffer
public abstract MappedByteBuffer compact()
The bytes between the buffer's current position and its limit, if any, are copied to the beginning of the buffer. That is, the byte at index p = position()
is copied to index zero, the byte at index p + 1 is copied to index one, and so forth until the byte at index limit()
- 1 is copied to index n = limit()
- 1
- p. The buffer's position is then set to n+1 and its limit is set to its capacity. The mark, if defined, is discarded.
The buffer's position is set to the number of bytes copied, rather than to zero, so that an invocation of this method can be followed immediately by an invocation of another relative put method.
Invoke this method after writing data from a buffer in case the write was incomplete. The following loop, for example, copies bytes from one channel to another via the buffer buf
:
buf.clear(); // Prepare buffer for use
while (in.read(buf) >= 0 || buf.position != 0) {
buf.flip();
out.write(buf);
buf.compact(); // In case of partial write
}
compact
in class ByteBuffer
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