NOTE

Netty Pipeline: Adding and Removing ChannelHandlers

Dynamic pipeline modification, handler lifecycle callbacks, event-loop serialization, and sharability constraints.

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This is a historical learning note and may contain outdated or incomplete understanding.

Handlers can be added, replaced, or removed from a channel pipeline. Netty maintains handler contexts and invokes lifecycle callbacks such as handler-added/removed as appropriate.

Pipeline mutations from outside the event-loop thread are coordinated/scheduled so channel processing remains correctly serialized.

A handler instance is not automatically safe to share between channels. Only share stateless/thread-safe handlers with the documented sharability semantics; otherwise create one instance per pipeline/channel.

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