AppendEntriesRequest (MicroRaft 0.4 API)

All Superinterfaces:

RaftMessage, RaftModel, Serializable
```
public interface AppendEntriesRequest
extends RaftMessage
```
Raft message for the AppendEntries RPC.
See 5.3 Log replication section of In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm paper by Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout.
Invoked by leader to replicate log entries (§5.3); also used as heartbeat (§5.2).

See Also:

AppendEntriesRequestHandler

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes
Modifier and Type Interface Description

static interface AppendEntriesRequest.AppendEntriesRequestBuilder
The builder interface for AppendEntriesRequest.
- Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface io.microraft.model.message.RaftMessage
  RaftMessage.RaftMessageBuilder<T extends RaftMessage>

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`long`	`getCommitIndex()`
`long`	`getFlowControlSequenceNumber()`
`List<LogEntry>`	`getLogEntries()`
`long`	`getPreviousLogIndex()`
`int`	`getPreviousLogTerm()`
`long`	`getQuerySequenceNumber()`

Methods inherited from interface io.microraft.model.message.RaftMessage
getGroupId, getSender, getTerm

Method Detail

getPreviousLogTerm
```
int getPreviousLogTerm()
```

getPreviousLogIndex
```
long getPreviousLogIndex()
```

getCommitIndex
```
long getCommitIndex()
```

getLogEntries

@Nonnull
List<LogEntry> getLogEntries()

getQuerySequenceNumber
```
long getQuerySequenceNumber()
```

getFlowControlSequenceNumber
```
long getFlowControlSequenceNumber()
```