io.vertx.core.net

Interface NetClient

All Superinterfaces:

Measured

public interface NetClient
extends Measured

A TCP client.

Multiple connections to different servers can be made using the same instance.

This client supports a configurable number of connection attempts and a configurable delay between attempts.

Author:

Tim Fox

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	close() Close the client.
NetClient	connect(int port, String host, Handler<AsyncResult<NetSocket>> connectHandler) Open a connection to a server at the specific port and host.

Methods inherited from interface io.vertx.core.metrics.Measured

isMetricsEnabled

Method Detail

connect

NetClient connect(int port,
                  String host,
                  Handler<AsyncResult<NetSocket>> connectHandler)

Open a connection to a server at the specific port and host.

host can be a valid host name or IP address. The connect is done asynchronously and on success, a NetSocket instance is supplied via the connectHandler instance

Parameters:

port - the port

host - the host

Returns:

a reference to this, so the API can be used fluently

close

void close()

Close the client.

Any sockets which have not been closed manually will be closed here. The close is asynchronous and may not complete until some time after the method has returned.