jade.core.behaviours

Class ParallelBehaviour

java.lang.Object

jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

jade.core.behaviours.CompositeBehaviour

jade.core.behaviours.ParallelBehaviour

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class ParallelBehaviour
extends CompositeBehaviour

Composite behaviour with concurrent children scheduling. It is a CompositeBehaviour that executes its children behaviours concurrently, and it terminates when a particular condition on its sub-behaviours is met i.e. when all children are done, N children are done or any child is done.

Version:

$Date: 2010-10-14 15:27:14 +0200(gio, 14 ott 2010) $ $Revision: 6375 $

Author:

Giovanni Rimassa - Universita` di Parma, Giovanni Caire - Telecom Italia Lab

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static int	WHEN_ALL Predefined constant to be used in the constructor to create a ParallelBehaviour that terminates when all its children are done.
static int	WHEN_ANY Predefined constant to be used in the constructor to create a ParallelBehaviour that terminates when any of its child is done.

Fields inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

myAgent

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ParallelBehaviour() Construct a ParallelBehaviour without setting the owner agent, and using the default termination condition (i.e. the parallel behaviour terminates as soon as all its children behaviours terminate.
ParallelBehaviour(Agent a, int endCondition) Construct a ParallelBehaviour setting the owner agent.
ParallelBehaviour(int endCondition) Construct a ParallelBehaviour without setting the owner agent.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addSubBehaviour(Behaviour b) Add a sub behaviour to this ParallelBehaviour
protected boolean	checkTermination(boolean currentDone, int currentResult) Check whether this ParallelBehaviour must terminate.
Collection	getChildren() Return a Collection view of the children of this ParallelBehaviour
protected Behaviour	getCurrent() Get the current child
Collection	getTerminatedChildren() Return a Collection view of the children of this ParallelBehaviour that have already completed.
void	removeSubBehaviour(Behaviour b) Remove a sub behaviour from this ParallelBehaviour
void	reset() Resets this behaviour.
protected void	scheduleFirst() Prepare the first child for execution
protected void	scheduleNext(boolean currentDone, int currentResult) This method schedules children behaviours one at a time, in a round robin fashion.

Methods inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.CompositeBehaviour

action, done, resetChildren, setAgent

Methods inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

block, block, getAgent, getBehaviourName, getDataStore, getParent, isRunnable, onEnd, onStart, restart, root, setBehaviourName, setDataStore

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

WHEN_ALL

public static final int WHEN_ALL

Predefined constant to be used in the constructor to create a ParallelBehaviour that terminates when all its children are done.

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Constant Field Values

WHEN_ANY

public static final int WHEN_ANY

Predefined constant to be used in the constructor to create a ParallelBehaviour that terminates when any of its child is done.

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

ParallelBehaviour

public ParallelBehaviour()

Construct a ParallelBehaviour without setting the owner agent, and using the default termination condition (i.e. the parallel behaviour terminates as soon as all its children behaviours terminate.

ParallelBehaviour

public ParallelBehaviour(int endCondition)

Construct a ParallelBehaviour without setting the owner agent.

Parameters:

endCondition - this value defines the termination condition for this ParallelBehaviour. Use

1. WHEN_ALL to terminate this ParallelBehaviour when all its children are done.
2. WHEN_ANY to terminate this ParallelBehaviour when any of its child is done.
3. a positive int value n to terminate this ParallelBehaviour when n of its children are done.

ParallelBehaviour

public ParallelBehaviour(Agent a,
                         int endCondition)

Construct a ParallelBehaviour setting the owner agent.

Parameters:

a - the agent this ParallelBehaviour belongs to.

endCondition - this value defines the termination condition for this ParallelBehaviour. Use

1. WHEN_ALL to terminate this ParallelBehaviour when all its children are done.
2. WHEN_ANY to terminate this ParallelBehaviour when any of its child is done.
3. a positive int value n to terminate this ParallelBehaviour when n of its children are done.

Method Detail

scheduleFirst

protected void scheduleFirst()

Prepare the first child for execution

Specified by:

scheduleFirst in class CompositeBehaviour

See Also:

CompositeBehaviour.scheduleFirst()

scheduleNext

protected void scheduleNext(boolean currentDone,
                            int currentResult)

This method schedules children behaviours one at a time, in a round robin fashion.

Specified by:

scheduleNext in class CompositeBehaviour

Parameters:

currentDone - a flag indicating whether the just executed child has completed or not.

currentResult - the termination value (as returned by onEnd()) of the just executed child in the case this child has completed (otherwise this parameter is meaningless)

See Also:

CompositeBehaviour.scheduleNext(boolean, int)

checkTermination

protected boolean checkTermination(boolean currentDone,
                                   int currentResult)

Check whether this ParallelBehaviour must terminate.

Specified by:

checkTermination in class CompositeBehaviour

Parameters:

currentDone - a flag indicating whether the just executed child has completed or not.

currentResult - the termination value (as returned by onEnd()) of the just executed child in the case this child has completed (otherwise this parameter is meaningless)

Returns:

true if the CompositeBehaviour should terminate. false otherwise.

See Also:

CompositeBehaviour.checkTermination(boolean, int)

getCurrent

protected Behaviour getCurrent()

Get the current child

Specified by:

getCurrent in class CompositeBehaviour

See Also:

CompositeBehaviour.getCurrent()

getChildren

public Collection getChildren()

Return a Collection view of the children of this ParallelBehaviour

Specified by:

getChildren in class CompositeBehaviour

See Also:

CompositeBehaviour.getChildren()

getTerminatedChildren

public Collection getTerminatedChildren()

Return a Collection view of the children of this ParallelBehaviour that have already completed.

addSubBehaviour

public void addSubBehaviour(Behaviour b)

Add a sub behaviour to this ParallelBehaviour

removeSubBehaviour

public void removeSubBehaviour(Behaviour b)

Remove a sub behaviour from this ParallelBehaviour

reset

public void reset()

Resets this behaviour. This methods puts a ParallelBehaviour back in initial state, besides calling reset() on each child behaviour recursively.

Overrides:

reset in class CompositeBehaviour