is.lill.acre.conversation
Class ConversationManager

java.lang.Object
  java.util.Observable
      is.lill.acre.conversation.ConversationManager

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.util.Observer

public class ConversationManager
extends java.util.Observable
implements java.util.Observer

Class for managing the conversations of one agent

Constructor Summary

ConversationManager(IACREAgentID ownerId)

Method Summary

java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.util.Set<Conversation>>	getActiveByParticipant()
Conversation	getConversationByID(java.lang.String identifier)
java.lang.String	getNextConversationId() Generate the next unique conversation id - concatenate the agent ID of the owner of this manager to an incrementing counter
IACREAgentID	getOtherParticipant(Conversation c) From a conversation, find the participant that is not the agent that owns this conversation manager.
boolean	initiates(ProtocolDescriptor pd, IACREMessage m)
Conversation	processMessage(IACREMessage m) Process a message that has been sent/received This implements the Match, Fail, New and Update stages of the formal model
void	setProtocolManager(ProtocolManager pm)
void	update(java.util.Observable arg0, java.lang.Object arg1)

Methods inherited from class java.util.Observable

addObserver, clearChanged, countObservers, deleteObserver, deleteObservers, hasChanged, notifyObservers, notifyObservers, setChanged

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ConversationManager

public ConversationManager(IACREAgentID ownerId)

Parameters:

ownerId -

Method Detail

update

public void update(java.util.Observable arg0,
                   java.lang.Object arg1)

Specified by:

update in interface java.util.Observer

getOtherParticipant

public IACREAgentID getOtherParticipant(Conversation c)

From a conversation, find the participant that is not the agent that owns this conversation manager.

Parameters:

c - A conversation

Returns:

The Agent id of the other participating agent in the conversation

getNextConversationId

public java.lang.String getNextConversationId()

Generate the next unique conversation id - concatenate the agent ID of the owner of this manager to an incrementing counter

Returns:

A uniquely generated conversation id

setProtocolManager

public void setProtocolManager(ProtocolManager pm)

getActiveByParticipant

public java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.util.Set<Conversation>> getActiveByParticipant()

getConversationByID

public Conversation getConversationByID(java.lang.String identifier)

initiates

public boolean initiates(ProtocolDescriptor pd,
                         IACREMessage m)

processMessage

public Conversation processMessage(IACREMessage m)

Process a message that has been sent/received This implements the Match, Fail, New and Update stages of the formal model

Parameters:

m - A message that has been sent/received

Returns:

The conversation the message matches, or null if the message was either unmatched or ambiguous