Package org.springframework.messaging.handler.invocation

Interface HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler

All Known Subinterfaces:

AsyncHandlerMethodReturnValueHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAsyncReturnValueHandler, CompletableFutureReturnValueHandler, HandlerMethodReturnValueHandlerComposite, ListenableFutureReturnValueHandler, ReactiveReturnValueHandler, SendToMethodReturnValueHandler, SubscriptionMethodReturnValueHandler

public interface HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler

Strategy interface to handle the value returned from the invocation of a method handling a Message.

Since:

4.0

Author:

Rossen Stoyanchev

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	handleReturnValue(Object returnValue, MethodParameter returnType, Message<?> message)	Handle the given return value.
boolean	supportsReturnType(MethodParameter returnType)	Whether the given method return type is supported by this handler.

Method Details

supportsReturnType

boolean supportsReturnType(MethodParameter returnType)

Whether the given method return type is supported by this handler.

Parameters:

returnType - the method return type to check

Returns:

true if this handler supports the supplied return type; false otherwise

handleReturnValue

void handleReturnValue(@Nullable
 Object returnValue,
 MethodParameter returnType,
 Message<?> message)
                throws Exception

Handle the given return value.

Parameters:

returnValue - the value returned from the handler method

returnType - the type of the return value. This type must have previously been passed to supportsReturnType(org.springframework.core.MethodParameter) and it must have returned true.

message - the message that caused this method to be called

Throws:

Exception - if the return value handling results in an error