agentland.device
Interface MultiDevice

All Superinterfaces:

Agent, Device, Good, Managed, Remote, Spy

All Known Subinterfaces:

AbstractDeviceManager, DeviceManager, DrapesManager, LightManager, ProjectorManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

MultiDeviceAgent

public interface MultiDevice

extends Device

Generic interface for all agents that control a number of devices (further extended by DeviceManager which explicitly controls other agents) -- this one is meant mostly for agents that directly control several devices

See Also:

Device, DeviceManager

Fields inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

ALIVE, DIED, NO_METAGLUE, NOT_RUNNING, STARTING

Method Summary

boolean	addManagedGrammar(String name) You can add a grammar that this agent will manage, i.e.
AgentID	getNameResolver() Returns the name resolver that this agent uses to store it's name-device associations
boolean	removeManagedGrammar(String name) Removes the grammar for the list of grammars to manage

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

addManagedGrammar

public boolean addManagedGrammar(String name)
                          throws RemoteException

You can add a grammar that this agent will manage, i.e. it will update the rule to have all the names of all the devices this agent can control

Parameters:

name - name of the grammar (e.g. "agentland.device.lights.LightManager")

Returns:

true if things went well, false if something went wrong

removeManagedGrammar

public boolean removeManagedGrammar(String name)
                             throws RemoteException

Removes the grammar for the list of grammars to manage

Returns:

true if the grammar was there, false otherwise

getNameResolver

public AgentID getNameResolver()
                        throws RemoteException

Returns the name resolver that this agent uses to store it's name-device associations