/*
 * Created on Sep 27, 2004
 * Created by Alon Rohter
 * Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 Aelitis, All Rights Reserved.
 *
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package com.aelitis.azureus.core.networkmanager.impl;

import com.aelitis.azureus.core.networkmanager.EventWaiter;

/**
 * Interface designation for rate-limited entities controlled by a handler.
 */
public interface RateControlledEntity {
  /**
   * Uses fair round-robin scheduling of processing ops.
   */
  public static final int PRIORITY_NORMAL = 0;
  
  /**
   * Guaranteed scheduling of processing ops, with preference over normal-priority entities.
   */
  public static final int PRIORITY_HIGH   = 1;
    
  /**
   * Is ready for a processing op.
   * @return true if it can process >0 bytes, false if not ready
   */
  public boolean canProcess(  EventWaiter waiter );
  
  /**
   * Attempt to do a processing operation.
   * @return true if >0 bytes were processed (success), false if 0 bytes were processed (failure)
   */
  public boolean doProcessing( EventWaiter waiter );
  
  /**
   * Get this entity's priority level.
   * @return priority
   */
  public int getPriority();
  
  	/**
  	 * stats functions
  	 * @return
  	 */
  
  public long
  getBytesReadyToWrite();
  
  public int
  getConnectionCount();
  
  public int
  getReadyConnectionCount( EventWaiter waiter );
  
  public String
  getString();
}