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package org.apache.http;

/**
 * The point of access to the statistics of an {@link HttpConnection}.
 */
public interface HttpConnectionMetrics {

    /**
     * Returns the number of requests transferred over the connection, 
     * 0 if not available.
     */ 
    long getRequestCount();
    
    /**
     * Returns the number of responses transferred over the connection, 
     * 0 if not available.
     */ 
    long getResponseCount();
    
    /**
     * Returns the number of bytes transferred over the connection, 
     * 0 if not available.
     */ 
    long getSentBytesCount();
    
    /**
     * Returns the number of bytes transferred over the connection, 
     * 0 if not available.
     */ 
    long getReceivedBytesCount(); 
    
    /**
     * Return the value for the specified metric.
     *
     *@param metricName the name of the metric to query.
     *
     *@return the object representing the metric requested,
     *        <code>null</code> if the metric cannot not found.
     */
    Object getMetric(String metricName);
    
    /**
     * Resets the counts
     *
     */
    void reset();
    
}