nl.tudelft.simulation.actor.messagehandlers
Interface MessageHandlerInterface

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

HandleAllMessages, HandleMessagesTimeDelay

public interface MessageHandlerInterface

extends java.io.Serializable

A MessageHandler that implements the MessageHandlerInterface should be able to take a MessageQueue from a device, and take one or more messages out of the queue, and prepare the messages fro further handling.

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Version:

$$Revision: 1.2 $$ $$Date: 2005/04/08 10:56:35 $$

Author:

Peter Jacobs , Stijn-Pieter van Houten , Alexander Verbraeck

Method Summary

void	handleMessageQueue(MessageQueueInterface messageQueue) Looks at a message queue, takes out the messages one by one, unpacks the message, and handles the content.

Method Detail

handleMessageQueue

public void handleMessageQueue(MessageQueueInterface messageQueue)

Looks at a message queue, takes out the messages one by one, unpacks the message, and handles the content. This method can be extended to handle the messages differently, e.g. by just working on one message and then stopping, or taking time to handle the message (and blocking if needed)

Parameters:

messageQueue - the queue to look at