agentland.resource.util
Interface ResourceRetriever

All Known Implementing Classes:

ResourceRetrieverAgent

public interface ResourceRetriever

extends Managed

Fields inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

ALIVE, DIED, NO_METAGLUE, NOT_RUNNING, STARTING

Fields inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

ALIVE, DIED, NO_METAGLUE, NOT_RUNNING, STARTING

Method Summary

void	loadBunch(String request) Make a resource request.
AgentID	retrieve(String occ)
AgentID	retrieve(String occ, Object des) Do a resource request on behalf of the caller, and return the agent ID associated with it.

Methods inherited from interface agentland.resource.Managed

getNeed, replace, resources, yank, yank

Methods inherited from interface agentland.util.Good

getHistory, getHistoryElement, resetHistory

Methods inherited from interface agentland.util.Spy

tell

Method Detail

retrieve

public AgentID retrieve(String occ,
                        Object des)
                 throws RemoteException

Do a resource request on behalf of the caller, and return the agent ID associated with it. Does all the fancy testing and translations.

retrieve

public AgentID retrieve(String occ)
                 throws RemoteException

loadBunch

public void loadBunch(String request)
               throws RemoteException

Make a resource request. Print out all the stuff we got from it.