casa

Class CommitmentProcessor

java.lang.Object

casa.CommitmentProcessor

Direct Known Subclasses:

ConcreteCommitmentProcessor

public abstract class CommitmentProcessor
extends Object

Title: CASA Agent Infrastructure

Description:

Copyright: Copyright 2003-2014, Knowledge Science Group, University of Calgary. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. The Knowledge Science Group makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

Company: Knowledge Science Group, University of Calgary

Version:

0.9

Author:

Rob Kremer

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected PolicyAgentInterface	agent a non-null "owner" agent that must be past in the constructor

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CommitmentProcessor(PolicyAgentInterface agent)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected abstract SocialCommitment	choose()
abstract SocialCommitmentsStore	getStore()
abstract boolean	hasActiveCommitments()
abstract boolean	isStoppable() determines if this process can be stopped.
void	notifyMessageSent(MLMessage message) This method is to be overridden by any subclasses that wish to be informed whenever a message is actually sent out.
abstract SocialCommitment	peek()
abstract SocialCommitment	processCommitment(SocialCommitment sc)
abstract SocialCommitment	processCommitments()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

agent

protected PolicyAgentInterface agent

a non-null "owner" agent that must be past in the constructor

Constructor Detail

CommitmentProcessor

public CommitmentProcessor(PolicyAgentInterface agent)

Method Detail

processCommitments

public abstract SocialCommitment processCommitments()

Parameters:

remoteAgent -

Returns:

true if it did something; otherwise false

getStore

public abstract SocialCommitmentsStore getStore()

peek

public abstract SocialCommitment peek()

notifyMessageSent

public void notifyMessageSent(MLMessage message)

This method is to be overridden by any subclasses that wish to be informed whenever a message is actually sent out. This verion does nothing.

Parameters:

message -

isStoppable

public abstract boolean isStoppable()

determines if this process can be stopped. A subclass may override if there are more constraints on stopping. This implementation checks to see that event queue is empty and there are no (non-standing-request) requests with replies pending.

Returns:

true if the process is stoppable, false otherwise.

hasActiveCommitments

public abstract boolean hasActiveCommitments()

choose

protected abstract SocialCommitment choose()

processCommitment

public abstract SocialCommitment processCommitment(SocialCommitment sc)