casa.agentCom

Class DirectChannel

java.lang.Object

casa.agentCom.DirectChannel

All Implemented Interfaces:

Channel

public class DirectChannel
extends Object
implements Channel

A "Channel" that writes directly to the "remote" agent's event queue. This only works for agents in the same process.

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
(package private) AbstractProcess	remoteAgent

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DirectChannel(AbstractProcess remoteAgent)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Status	sendMessage(AbstractProcess sender, MLMessage msg) Send a message to the to the agent specified in the RECEIVER field of the msg.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

remoteAgent

AbstractProcess remoteAgent

Constructor Detail

DirectChannel

public DirectChannel(AbstractProcess remoteAgent)

Method Detail

sendMessage

public Status sendMessage(AbstractProcess sender,
                          MLMessage msg)

Description copied from interface: Channel

Send a message to the to the agent specified in the RECEIVER field of the msg. The message is NOT checked for validity or anything else other than the URL in the RECEIVER field.

Specified by:

sendMessage in interface Channel

Parameters:

sender - The sender agent, primarily used to write log information to.

msg - The message to send.

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object