net.wimpi.modbus.io
Interface ModbusTransport

All Known Implementing Classes:

ModbusASCIITransport, ModbusBINTransport, ModbusRTUTransport, ModbusSerialTransport, ModbusTCPTransport, ModbusUDPTransport

public interface ModbusTransport

Interface defining the I/O mechanisms for ModbusMessage instances.

Version:

@version@ (@date@)

Author:

Dieter Wimberger

Method Summary

void	close() Closes the raw input and output streams of this ModbusTransport.
ModbusRequest	readRequest() Reads a ModbusRequest from the input stream of this ModbusTransport.
ModbusResponse	readResponse() Reads a ModbusResponse from the input stream of this ModbusTransport.
void	writeMessage(ModbusMessage msg) Writes a to the output stream of this ModbusTransport.

Method Detail

close

void close()
           throws IOException

Closes the raw input and output streams of this ModbusTransport.

Throws:

IOException - if a stream cannot be closed properly.

writeMessage

void writeMessage(ModbusMessage msg)
                  throws ModbusIOException

Writes a to the output stream of this ModbusTransport.

Parameters:

msg - a ModbusMessage.

Throws:

ModbusIOException - data cannot be written properly to the raw output stream of this ModbusTransport.

readRequest

ModbusRequest readRequest()
                          throws ModbusIOException

Reads a ModbusRequest from the input stream of this ModbusTransport.

Returns:

req the ModbusRequest read from the underlying stream.

Throws:

ModbusIOException - data cannot be read properly from the raw input stream of this ModbusTransport.

readResponse

ModbusResponse readResponse()
                            throws ModbusIOException

Reads a ModbusResponse from the input stream of this ModbusTransport.

Returns:

res the ModbusResponse read from the underlying stream.

Throws:

ModbusIOException - data cannot be read properly from the raw input stream of this ModbusTransport.