agentland.device
Interface AbstractDeviceManager

All Superinterfaces:

Agent, Device, DeviceManager, Good, Managed, MultiDevice, Remote, Spy

All Known Subinterfaces:

DrapesManager, LightManager, ProjectorManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDeviceManagerAgent

public interface AbstractDeviceManager

extends DeviceManager

An implementation of some of the common functinality for all device managers

See Also:

DeviceManager

Fields inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

ALIVE, DIED, NO_METAGLUE, NOT_RUNNING, STARTING

Method Summary

void	addSecretDevice(Secret s) Makes it possible to add new devices by secret -- in case we were spying on the catalog for new agents coming to life.
Collection	getDeviceIDs(String name) Returns a vector of agentID's of all agents managed by this manager that can be referenced by the name

Methods inherited from interface agentland.device.DeviceManager

addDevice, getDevices, removeDevice

Methods inherited from interface agentland.device.MultiDevice

addManagedGrammar, getNameResolver, removeManagedGrammar

Methods inherited from interface agentland.device.Device

addName, getName, getNames, getState, getState, getStateNames, hasName, resetAllStates, resetName, resetState, resetState, setName, setState

Methods inherited from interface agentland.resource.Managed

getNeed, replace, replace, resources, yank, yank

Methods inherited from interface agentland.util.Good

getHistory, getHistoryElement, resetHistory

Methods inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

addMonitor, alive, getAgentID, getMetaglueAgentID, shutdown, startup, whereAreYou

Methods inherited from interface agentland.util.Spy

tell

Method Detail

addSecretDevice

public void addSecretDevice(Secret s)
                     throws RemoteException

Makes it possible to add new devices by secret -- in case we were spying on the catalog for new agents coming to life.

Parameters:

s - a Secret with an AgentID in details

getDeviceIDs

public Collection getDeviceIDs(String name)
                        throws RemoteException

Returns a vector of agentID's of all agents managed by this manager that can be referenced by the name