ServerBootstrap与Bootstrap分别是netty中服务端与客户端的引导类,主要负责服务端与客户端初始化、配置及启动引导等工作,接下来我们就通过netty源码中的示例对ServerBootstrap与Bootstrap的源码进行一个简单的分析。首先我们知道这两个类都继承自AbstractBootstrap类

// Start the server. 启动服务
ChannelFuture f = b.bind(PORT).sync();
// Wait until the server socket is closed.
f.channel().closeFuture().sync();
} finally {
// Shut down all event loops to terminate all threads.
bossGroup.shutdownGracefully();
workerGroup.shutdownGracefully();
}
接下来我们主要从服务端的socket在哪里初始化与哪里accept连接这两个问题入手对netty服务端启动的流程进行分析;
我们首先要知道,netty服务的启动其实可以分为以下四步:
创建服务端Channel 初始化服务端Channel 注册Selector 端口绑定 一、创建服务端Channel
1、服务端Channel的创建,主要为以下流程

final ChannelFuture regFuture = initAndRegister();// 初始化并创建 NioServerSocketChanne1
我们在initAndRegister()中可以看到channel的初始化。
channel = channelFactory.newChannel(); // 通过 反射工厂创建一个 NioServerSocketChannel
我进一步看newChannel()中的源码,在ReflectiveChannelFactory这个反射工厂中,通过clazz这个类的反射创建了一个服务端的channel。
@Override public T newChannel() { try { return clazz.getConstructor().newInstance();//反射创建 } catch (Throwable t) { throw new ChannelException("Unable to create Channel from class " + clazz, t); } }
既然通过反射,我们就要知道clazz类是什么,那么我我们来看下channelFactory这个工厂类是在哪里初始化的,初始化的时候我们传入了哪个channel。
这里我们需要看下demo实例中初始化ServerBootstrap时.channel(NioServerSocketChannel.class)这里的具体实现,我们看下源码
public B channel(Class<? extends C> channelClass) { if (channelClass == null) { throw new NullPointerException("channelClass"); } return channelFactory(new ReflectiveChannelFactory(channelClass)); }
通过上面的代码我可以直观的看出正是在这里我们通过NioServerSocketChannel这个类构造了一个反射工厂。
那么到这里就很清楚了,我们创建的Channel就是一个NioServerSocketChannel,那么具体的创建我们就需要看下这个类的构造函数。首先我们看下一个NioServerSocketChannel创建的具体流程

private static ServerSocketChannel newSocket(SelectorProvider provider) {
try {
/**
* Use the {@link SelectorProvider} to open {@link SocketChannel} and so remove condition in
* {@link SelectorProvider#provider()} which is called by each ServerSocketChannel.open() otherwise.
*
* See <a href="https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2308">#2308</a>.
*/
return provider.openServerSocketChannel();//可以看到创建的是jdk底层的ServerSocketChannel
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new ChannelException(
"Failed to open a server socket.", e);
}
}
第二步是通过NioServerSocketChannelConfig配置服务端Channel的构造函数,在代码中我们可以看到我们把NioServerSocketChannel这个类传入到了NioServerSocketChannelConfig的构造函数中进行配置 /** * Create a new instance using the given {@link ServerSocketChannel}. */ public NioServerSocketChannel(ServerSocketChannel channel) { super(null, channel, SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT);//调用父类构造函数,传入创建的channel config = new NioServerSocketChannelConfig(this, javaChannel().socket()); }
第三步在父类AbstractNioChannel的构造函数中把创建服务端的Channel设置为非阻塞模式 /** * Create a new instance * * @param parent the parent {@link Channel} by which this instance was created. May be {@code null} * @param ch the underlying {@link SelectableChannel} on which it operates * @param readInterestOp the ops to set to receive data from the {@link SelectableChannel} */ protected AbstractNioChannel(Channel parent, SelectableChannel ch, int readInterestOp) { super(parent); this.ch = ch;//这个ch就是传入的通过jdk创建的Channel this.readInterestOp = readInterestOp; try { ch.configureBlocking(false);//设置为非阻塞 } catch (IOException e) { try { ch.close(); } catch (IOException e2) { if (logger.isWarnEnabled()) { logger.warn( "Failed to close a partially initialized socket.", e2); } }
throw new ChannelException("Failed to enter non-blocking mode.", e);
}
}
第四步调用AbstractChannel这个抽象类的构造函数设置Channel的id(每个Channel都有一个id,唯一标识),unsafe(tcp相关底层操作),pipeline(逻辑链)等,而不管是服务的Channel还是客户端的Channel都继承自这个抽象类,他们也都会有上述相应的属性。我们看下AbstractChannel的构造函数 /** * Creates a new instance. * * @param parent * the parent of this channel. {@code null} if there's no parent. */ protected AbstractChannel(Channel parent) { this.parent = parent; id = newId();//创建Channel唯一标识 unsafe = newUnsafe();//netty封装的TCP 相关操作类 pipeline = newChannelPipeline();//逻辑链 }
2、初始化服务端创建的Channel init(channel);// 初始化这个 NioServerSocketChannel
我们首先列举下init(channel)中具体都做了哪了些功能:
设置ChannelOptions、ChannelAttrs ,配置服务端Channel的相关属性; 设置ChildOptions、ChildAttrs,配置每个新连接的Channel的相关属性; Config handler,配置服务端pipeline; add ServerBootstrapAcceptor,添加连接器,对accpet接受到的新连接进行处理,添加一个nio线程; 那么接下来我们通过代码,对每一步设置进行一下分析:
首先是在SeverBootstrap的init()方法中对ChannelOptions、ChannelAttrs 的配置的关键代码
final Map<ChannelOption<?>, Object> options = options0();//拿到你设置的option synchronized (options) { setChannelOptions(channel, options, logger);//设置NioServerSocketChannel相应的TCP参数,其实这一步就是把options设置到channel的config中 }
final Map<AttributeKey<?>, Object> attrs = attrs0();
synchronized (attrs) {
for (Entry<AttributeKey<?>, Object> e: attrs.entrySet()) {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
AttributeKey<Object> key = (AttributeKey<Object>) e.getKey();
channel.attr(key).set(e.getValue());
}
}
然后是对ChildOptions、ChildAttrs配置的关键代码 //可以看到两个都是局部变量,会在下面设置pipeline时用到 final Entry<ChannelOption<?>, Object>[] currentChildOptions; final Entry<AttributeKey<?>, Object>[] currentChildAttrs; synchronized (childOptions) { currentChildOptions = childOptions.entrySet().toArray(newOptionArray(0)); } synchronized (childAttrs) { currentChildAttrs = childAttrs.entrySet().toArray(newAttrArray(0)); }
第三步对服务端Channel的handler进行配置 p.addLast(new ChannelInitializer() { @Override public void initChannel(final Channel ch) throws Exception { final ChannelPipeline pipeline = ch.pipeline(); ChannelHandler handler = config.handler();//拿到我们自定义的hanler if (handler != null) { pipeline.addLast(handler); }
ch.eventLoop().execute(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
pipeline.addLast(new ServerBootstrapAcceptor(
ch, currentChildGroup, currentChildHandler, currentChildOptions, currentChildAttrs));
}
});
}
});
第四步添加ServerBootstrapAcceptor连接器,这个是netty向服务端Channel自定义添加的一个handler,用来处理新连接的添加与属性配置,我们来看下关键代码
ch.eventLoop().execute(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { //在这里会把我们自定义的ChildGroup、ChildHandler、ChildOptions、ChildAttrs相关配置传入到ServerBootstrapAcceptor构造函数中,并绑定到新的连接上 pipeline.addLast(new ServerBootstrapAcceptor( ch, currentChildGroup, currentChildHandler, currentChildOptions, currentChildAttrs)); } });
三、注册Selector
一个服务端的Channel创建完毕后,下一步就是要把它注册到一个事件轮询器Selector上,在initAndRegister()中我们把上面初始化的Channel进行注册
ChannelFuture regFuture = config().group().register(channel);//注册我们已经初始化过的Channel
而这个register具体实现是在AbstractChannel中的AbstractUnsafe抽象类中的
/** * 1、先是一系列的判断。 * 2、判断当前线程是否是给定的 eventLoop 线程。注意:这点很重要,Netty 线程模型的高性能取决于对于当前执行的Thread 的身份的确定。如果不在当前线程,那么就需要很多同步措施(比如加锁),上下文切换等耗费性能的操作。 * 3、异步(因为我们这里直到现在还是 main 线程在执行,不属于当前线程)的执行 register0 方法。 */ @Override public final void register(EventLoop eventLoop, final ChannelPromise promise) { if (eventLoop == null) { throw new NullPointerException("eventLoop"); } if (isRegistered()) { promise.setFailure(new IllegalStateException("registered to an event loop already")); return; } if (!isCompatible(eventLoop)) { promise.setFailure( new IllegalStateException("incompatible event loop type: " + eventLoop.getClass().getName())); return; }
AbstractChannel.this.eventLoop = eventLoop;//绑定线程
if (eventLoop.inEventLoop()) {
register0(promise);//实际的注册过程
} else {
try {
eventLoop.execute(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
register0(promise);
}
});
} catch (Throwable t) {
logger.warn(
"Force-closing a channel whose registration task was not accepted by an event loop: {}",
AbstractChannel.this, t);
closeForcibly();
closeFuture.setClosed();
safeSetFailure(promise, t);
}
}
}
首先我们对整个注册的流程做一个梳理

// 触发绑定的handler事件
// Ensure we call handlerAdded(...) before we actually notify the promise. This is needed as the
// user may already fire events through the pipeline in the ChannelFutureListener.
pipeline.invokeHandlerAddedIfNeeded();
safeSetSuccess(promise);
pipeline.fireChannelRegistered();
// Only fire a channelActive if the channel has never been registered. This prevents firing
// multiple channel actives if the channel is deregistered and re-registered.
if (isActive()) {
if (firstRegistration) {
pipeline.fireChannelActive();
} else if (config().isAutoRead()) {
// This channel was registered before and autoRead() is set. This means we need to begin read
// again so that we process inbound data.
//
// See https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/4805
beginRead();
}
}
} catch (Throwable t) {
// Close the channel directly to avoid FD leak.
closeForcibly();
closeFuture.setClosed();
safeSetFailure(promise, t);
}
}
AbstractNioChannel中doRegister()的具体实现就是把jdk底层的channel绑定到eventLoop的selecor上 @Override protected void doRegister() throws Exception { boolean selected = false; for (;;) { try { //把channel注册到eventLoop上的selector上 selectionKey = javaChannel().register(eventLoop().unwrappedSelector(), 0, this); return; } catch (CancelledKeyException e) { if (!selected) { // Force the Selector to select now as the "canceled" SelectionKey may still be // cached and not removed because no Select.select(..) operation was called yet. eventLoop().selectNow(); selected = true; } else { // We forced a select operation on the selector before but the SelectionKey is still cached // for whatever reason. JDK bug ? throw e; } } } }
到这里netty就把服务端的channel注册到了指定的selector上,下面就是服务端口的邦迪
三、端口绑定
首先我们梳理下netty中服务端口绑定的流程

我们来看下AbstarctUnsafe中bind()方法的具体实现
@Override public final void bind(final SocketAddress localAddress, final ChannelPromise promise) { assertEventLoop();
if (!promise.setUncancellable() || !ensureOpen(promise)) {
return;
}
// See: https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/576
if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(config().getOption(ChannelOption.SO_BROADCAST)) &&
localAddress instanceof InetSocketAddress &&
!((InetSocketAddress) localAddress).getAddress().isAnyLocalAddress() &&
!PlatformDependent.isWindows() && !PlatformDependent.maybeSuperUser()) {
// Warn a user about the fact that a non-root user can't receive a
// broadcast packet on *nix if the socket is bound on non-wildcard address.
logger.warn(
"A non-root user can't receive a broadcast packet if the socket " +
"is not bound to a wildcard address; binding to a non-wildcard " +
"address (" + localAddress + ") anyway as requested.");
}
boolean wasActive = isActive();//判断绑定是否完成
try {
doBind(localAddress);//底层jdk绑定端口
} catch (Throwable t) {
safeSetFailure(promise, t);
closeIfClosed();
return;
}
if (!wasActive && isActive()) {
invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
pipeline.fireChannelActive();//触发ChannelActive事件
}
});
}
safeSetSuccess(promise);
}
在doBind(localAddress)中netty实现了jdk底层端口的绑定 @Override protected void doBind(SocketAddress localAddress) throws Exception { if (PlatformDependent.javaVersion() >= 7) { javaChannel().bind(localAddress, config.getBacklog()); } else { javaChannel().socket().bind(localAddress, config.getBacklog()); } }
在 pipeline.fireChannelActive()中会触发pipeline中的channelActive()方法 @Override public void channelActive(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception { ctx.fireChannelActive();
readIfIsAutoRead();
}
在channelActive中首先会把ChannelActive事件往下传播,然后调用readIfIsAutoRead()方法出触发channel的read事件,而它最终调用AbstractNioChannel中的doBeginRead()方法
@Override protected void doBeginRead() throws Exception { // Channel.read() or ChannelHandlerContext.read() was called final SelectionKey selectionKey = this.selectionKey; if (!selectionKey.isValid()) { return; }
readPending = true;
final int interestOps = selectionKey.interestOps();
if ((interestOps & readInterestOp) == 0) {
selectionKey.interestOps(interestOps | readInterestOp);//readInterestOp为 SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT
}
}
在doBeginRead()方法,netty会把accept事件注册到Selector上。
到此我们对netty服务端的启动流程有了一个大致的了解,整体可以概括为下面四步:
1、channelFactory.newChannel(),其实就是创建jdk底层channel,并初始化id、piepline等属性;
2、init(channel),添加option、attr等属性,并添加ServerBootstrapAcceptor连接器;
3、config().group().register(channel),把jdk底层的channel注册到eventLoop上的selector上;
4、doBind0(regFuture, channel, localAddress, promise),完成服务端端口的监听,并把accept事件注册到selector上;
以上就是对netty服务端启动流程进行的一个简单分析,有很多细节没有关注与深入,其中如有不足与不正确的地方还望指出与海涵。