FrameDecoder will keep calling the decoder method until it returns null?

["Trustin Lee (이희승)"]

hezjing wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm reading the Netty 3.2 Getting
> Started<http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/netty/freezone/guide/3.2/html/start.html#d0e56>
> .
> 
> Section 1.7.3 (The Second Solution) explained that the FrameDecoder will
> keep calling the decoder method until it returns null.
> 
> Shouldn't be the FrameDecoder will keep calling the decoder method until it
> returns ChannelBuffer object (or not null)?

To express in pseudo code:

  do {
      frame = decode(...);
  } while (frame != null);

So, FrameDecoder keeps calling decode() until it returns null (i.e.
while it returns non-null)

Or.. am I missing something?

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