nl.tudelft.simulation.content
Class Handler

java.lang.Object
  nl.tudelft.simulation.content.Handler

All Implemented Interfaces:

HandlerInterface, java.io.Serializable

public abstract class Handler

extends java.lang.Object

implements HandlerInterface

An abstract definition of a handler, providing a default stream and a constructor method.

Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands. All rights reserved. See for project information www.simulation.tudelft.nl . The source code and binary code of this software is proprietary information of Delft University of Technology.

Version:

$$Revision: 1.3 $$ $$Date: 2005/04/08 11:29:12 $$

Author:

Peter Jacobs , Stijn-Pieter van Houten , Alexander Verbraeck

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected ActorInterface	owner the owner of this handler
protected nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.streams.StreamInterface	stream the default stream to use for the time delays

Constructor Summary

Handler(ActorInterface owner)
constructs a new Handler

Method Summary

nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.streams.StreamInterface	getStream()
abstract boolean	handleContent(java.io.Serializable content) Method handleContent.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

owner

protected ActorInterface owner

the owner of this handler

stream

protected nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.streams.StreamInterface stream

the default stream to use for the time delays

Constructor Detail

Handler

public Handler(ActorInterface owner)

constructs a new Handler

Parameters:

owner - the owner of this handler

Method Detail

getStream

public nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.streams.StreamInterface getStream()

Returns:

Returns the default stream.

handleContent

public abstract boolean handleContent(java.io.Serializable content)

Description copied from interface: HandlerInterface

Method handleContent.

Specified by:

handleContent in interface HandlerInterface

Parameters:

content - the content to be handled, can be of any type

Returns:

a boolean acknowledgement; true or false

See Also:

HandlerInterface.handleContent(java.io.Serializable)