com.google.bitcoin.net.discovery
Interface PeerDiscovery

All Known Implementing Classes:

DnsDiscovery, IrcDiscovery, SeedPeers

public interface PeerDiscovery

A PeerDiscovery object is responsible for finding addresses of other nodes in the Bitcoin P2P network. Note that the addresses returned may or may not be accepting connections.

Method Summary

InetSocketAddress[]	getPeers(long timeoutValue, TimeUnit timeoutUnit) Returns an array of addresses.
void	shutdown() Stops any discovery in progress when we want to shut down quickly.

Method Detail

getPeers

InetSocketAddress[] getPeers(long timeoutValue,
                             TimeUnit timeoutUnit)
                             throws PeerDiscoveryException

Returns an array of addresses. This method may block.

Throws:

PeerDiscoveryException

shutdown

void shutdown()

Stops any discovery in progress when we want to shut down quickly.