agentland.device
Interface DeviceManager

All Superinterfaces:

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

All Known Subinterfaces:

AbstractDeviceManager, DrapesManager, LightManager, ProjectorManager

public interface DeviceManager

extends MultiDevice

Basic interface for all agents that control a number of other device agents.

See Also:

MultiDevice

Fields inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

ALIVE, DIED, NO_METAGLUE, NOT_RUNNING, STARTING

Method Summary

boolean	addDevice(AgentID aid) Add a specific device to the list of controlled devices
Vector	getDevices() Returns a list of all devices managed by this manager
boolean	removeDevice(AgentID aid) Remove the device from the list of controlled devices

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

addDevice

public boolean addDevice(AgentID aid)
                  throws RemoteException

Add a specific device to the list of controlled devices

Parameters:

aid - the agent id of the device

Returns:

true if things went well (even if the device is already there); false if something went wrong (e.g. we could not find the device anywhere)

removeDevice

public boolean removeDevice(AgentID aid)
                     throws RemoteException

Remove the device from the list of controlled devices

Returns:

true if the device was there and things went well; false otherwise

getDevices

public Vector getDevices()
                  throws RemoteException

Returns a list of all devices managed by this manager