agentland.behavior
Class BehaviorID

java.lang.Object
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  +--agentland.behavior.BehaviorID

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class BehaviorID

extends Object

implements Serializable

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

BehaviorID(AgentID ag)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj)
AgentID	getAgentID()
Integer	getNumeric()
int	hashCode() The method hashCode is necessary to be able to use BehaviorIDs as keys in hashtables.
void	setNumeric(Integer num)
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BehaviorID

public BehaviorID(AgentID ag)

Method Detail

getNumeric

public Integer getNumeric()

setNumeric

public void setNumeric(Integer num)

getAgentID

public AgentID getAgentID()

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

The method hashCode is necessary to be able to use BehaviorIDs as keys in hashtables. The reason for this is similar to the reason for having a special equals() method for BehaviorIDs: passing BehaviorIDs around doesn't quite send the same object around. The hash function used in a table will assign two different values to these different objects, ALTHOUGH they are they same BehaviorID. The hash code returned is the numeric value for the BehaviorID. Note that this is a good hash function, as the numeric value is unique for a given BehaviorID. (The BehaviorCoordinator ensures this uniqueness.)

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

Returns:

the hash value as an int