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+//
+//  ========================================================================
+//  Copyright (c) 1995-2014 Mort Bay Consulting Pty. Ltd.
+//  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//  All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+//  are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+//  and Apache License v2.0 which accompanies this distribution.
+//
+//      The Eclipse Public License is available at
+//      http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+//
+//      The Apache License v2.0 is available at
+//      http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php
+//
+//  You may elect to redistribute this code under either of these licenses.
+//  ========================================================================
+//
+
+package org.eclipse.jetty.io;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
+/** Abstract Connection used by Jetty Connectors.
+ * <p>
+ * Jetty will call the handle method of a connection when there is work
+ * to be done on the connection.  For blocking connections, this is soon
+ * as the connection is open and handle will keep being called until the
+ * connection is closed.   For non-blocking connections, handle will only
+ * be called if there are bytes to be read or the connection becomes writable
+ * after being write blocked.
+ *
+ * @see org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectorManager
+ */
+public interface Connection
+{
+    /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
+    /**
+     * Handle the connection.
+     * @return The Connection to use for the next handling of the connection.
+     * This allows protocol upgrades and support for CONNECT.
+     * @throws IOException if the handling of I/O operations fail
+     */
+    Connection handle() throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * @return the timestamp at which the connection was created
+     */
+    long getTimeStamp();
+
+    /**
+     * @return whether this connection is idle, that is not parsing and not generating
+     * @see #onIdleExpired(long)
+     */
+    boolean isIdle();
+
+    /**
+     * <p>The semantic of this method is to return true to indicate interest in further reads,
+     * or false otherwise, but it is misnamed and should be really called <code>isReadInterested()</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @return true to indicate interest in further reads, false otherwise
+     */
+    // TODO: rename to isReadInterested() in the next release
+    boolean isSuspended();
+
+    /**
+     * Called after the connection is closed
+     */
+    void onClose();
+
+    /**
+     * Called when the connection idle timeout expires
+     * @param idleForMs how long the connection has been idle
+     * @see #isIdle()
+     */
+    void onIdleExpired(long idleForMs);
+}