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    /**
     * This method will be called once the {@link Channel} was registered. After the method returns this instance
     * will be removed from the {@link ChannelPipeline} of the {@link Channel}.
     *
     * @param ch            the {@link Channel} which was registered.
     * @throws Exception    is thrown if an error occurs. In that case it will be handled by
     *                      {@link #exceptionCaught(ChannelHandlerContext, Throwable)} which will by default close
     *                      the {@link Channel}.
     */
    protected abstract void initChannel(C ch) throws Exception;

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private boolean initChannel(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception {
        if (initMap.add(ctx)) { // Guard against re-entrance.
            try {
                initChannel((C) ctx.channel());
            } catch (Throwable cause) {
                // Explicitly call exceptionCaught(...) as we removed the handler before calling initChannel(...).
                // We do so to prevent multiple calls to initChannel(...).
                exceptionCaught(ctx, cause);
            } finally {
                ChannelPipeline pipeline = ctx.pipeline();
                if (pipeline.context(this) != null) {
                    pipeline.remove(this);
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

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