How to use channel groups from custom implementation?

[cowwoc]

On 19/07/2011 1:44 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> Gili wrote:
>> :
>> I think you meant "does *not* specify that it can be null". Okay, so 
>> we'd
>> need to update the documentation there. Can you open a bug report for 
>> this?
>>
>> PS: Why does AsynchronousChannelGroup even need a reference to the 
>> provider?
>> This sounds like an implementation detail...?
>>
> An AsynchronousChannelGroup is intimately bound to its provider and 
> the asynchronous channels that the provider creates. It's similar to a 
> Selector being intimately bound to its provider and the selectable 
> channels that the SelectorProvider creates. On a few occasions there 
> has been requests for a way to create a selectable channel 
> implementation and have it work with the default Selector 
> implementation but we just don't have a good story for that (because 
> it involves platform/implementation specific plumbing). It's the same 
> thing with an AsynchronousChannelGroup. If AsynchronousChannelGroup is 
> useful to what you are doing then creating it with the provider with 
> null should be okay.
>
> -Alan.

     Okay, so can you let me know what the bug number is for the 
documentation fix?

Thanks,
Gili