Package org.bitcoinj.core

Class EmptyMessage

java.lang.Object

org.bitcoinj.core.BaseMessage

org.bitcoinj.core.EmptyMessage

All Implemented Interfaces:

Message

Direct Known Subclasses:

GetAddrMessage, MemoryPoolMessage, SendAddrV2Message, SendHeadersMessage, UnknownMessage, VersionAck

public abstract class EmptyMessage
extends BaseMessage

Parent class for header only messages that don't have a payload. Currently this includes getaddr, verack and special bitcoinj class UnknownMessage.

Instances of this class are not safe for use by multiple threads.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.bitcoinj.core.Message

MAX_SIZE

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
EmptyMessage()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected final void	bitcoinSerializeToStream(OutputStream stream)	Serializes this message to the provided stream.
final int	messageSize()	Return the size of the serialized message.

Methods inherited from class org.bitcoinj.core.BaseMessage

serialize

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.bitcoinj.core.Message

bitcoinSerialize, getMessageSize, unsafeBitcoinSerialize

Constructor Details

EmptyMessage

public EmptyMessage()

Method Details

messageSize

public final int messageSize()

Description copied from class: BaseMessage

Return the size of the serialized message. Note that if the message was deserialized from a payload, this size can differ from the size of the original payload.

Specified by:

messageSize in interface Message

Overrides:

messageSize in class BaseMessage

Returns:

size of this object when serialized (in bytes)

bitcoinSerializeToStream

protected final void bitcoinSerializeToStream(OutputStream stream)
                                       throws IOException

Description copied from class: BaseMessage

Serializes this message to the provided stream. If you just want the raw bytes use BaseMessage.serialize().

Specified by:

bitcoinSerializeToStream in class BaseMessage

Throws:

IOException