This implementation of the AbstractTrafficShapingHandler is for channel traffic shaping, that is to say a per channel limitation of the bandwidth.

Note the index used in OutboundBuffer.setUserDefinedWritability(index, boolean) is 1.

The general use should be as follow:

• Add in your pipeline a new ChannelTrafficShapingHandler.

  ChannelTrafficShapingHandler myHandler = new ChannelTrafficShapingHandler();

  pipeline.addLast(myHandler);

  Note that this handler has a Pipeline Coverage of "one" which means a new handler must be created for each new channel as the counter cannot be shared among all channels..

  Other arguments can be passed like write or read limitation (in bytes/s where 0 means no limitation) or the check interval (in millisecond) that represents the delay between two computations of the bandwidth and so the call back of the doAccounting method (0 means no accounting at all).

  A value of 0 means no accounting for checkInterval. If you need traffic shaping but no such accounting, it is recommended to set a positive value, even if it is high since the precision of the Traffic Shaping depends on the period where the traffic is computed. The highest the interval, the less precise the traffic shaping will be. It is suggested as higher value something close to 5 or 10 minutes.

  maxTimeToWait, by default set to 15s, allows to specify an upper bound of time shaping.

• In your handler, you should consider to use the channel.isWritable() and channelWritabilityChanged(ctx) to handle writability, or through future.addListener(future -> ...) on the future returned by ctx.write().

• You shall also consider to have object size in read or write operations relatively adapted to the bandwidth you required: for instance having 10 MB objects for 10KB/s will lead to burst effect, while having 100 KB objects for 1 MB/s should be smoothly handle by this TrafficShaping handler.

• Some configuration methods will be taken as best effort, meaning that all already scheduled traffics will not be changed, but only applied to new traffics.

  So the expected usage of those methods are to be used not too often, accordingly to the traffic shaping configuration.