metaglue
Interface AttributeManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

AttributeManagerAgent

public interface AttributeManager

extends Agent

Fields inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

ALIVE, DIED, NO_METAGLUE, NOT_RUNNING, STARTING

Method Summary

void	addAgentStrong(String society, String occupation)
void	addAttribute(AgentID agentID, String attributeName)
void	addAttribute(AgentID agentID, String attributeName, String attributeValue)
void	addAttributeListener(AttributeListener attributeListener)
void	addSocietyStrong(String society)
void	addSocietyStrong(String society, Hashtable olevel)
void	deleteSociety(String oldSociety)
void	exportHumanReadable(String xfile)
Object	getAllAttributes()
String	getAttribute(AgentID agentID, String attributeName)
String	getDefaultAttribute(AgentID agentID, String attributeName)
Vector	getDesignations(String occupation)
boolean	hasAttribute(AgentID agentID, String attributeName) Return whether the given agent has a defined attribute (or if there is a default attribute for) with given attributeName This is since getAttribute throws exceptions at drop of hat.
void	importHumanReadable(String ifile)
Vector	removeDesignation(AgentID agentID)
Hashtable	removeSociety(String society)
void	saveAttributes()
void	synchronizeAgents()
void	synchronizeAgents(Object selection)
void	synchronizeAttributes()
void	updateAttribute(AgentID agentID, String attributeName, String attributeValue)
void	updateDesignation(AgentID oldAgentID, String newDesignation)
void	updateSociety(String oldSociety, String newSociety)

Methods inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

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

Method Detail

updateSociety

public void updateSociety(String oldSociety,
                          String newSociety)
                   throws RemoteException,
                          MissingAgentInAttributeDBException

getAttribute

public String getAttribute(AgentID agentID,
                           String attributeName)
                    throws RemoteException,
                           MissingAgentInAttributeDBException,
                           CorruptAttributeDBException,
                           MissingAttributeException

hasAttribute

public boolean hasAttribute(AgentID agentID,
                            String attributeName)
                     throws RemoteException

Return whether the given agent has a defined attribute (or if there is a default attribute for) with given attributeName This is since getAttribute throws exceptions at drop of hat. It allows us to see if getAttribute is going to vomit.

getDefaultAttribute

public String getDefaultAttribute(AgentID agentID,
                                  String attributeName)
                           throws RemoteException,
                                  MissingAgentInAttributeDBException,
                                  CorruptAttributeDBException,
                                  MissingAttributeException

deleteSociety

public void deleteSociety(String oldSociety)
                   throws RemoteException,
                          MissingAgentInAttributeDBException

addAttribute

public void addAttribute(AgentID agentID,
                         String attributeName,
                         String attributeValue)
                  throws RemoteException,
                         CorruptAttributeDBException

addAttribute

public void addAttribute(AgentID agentID,
                         String attributeName)
                  throws RemoteException,
                         CorruptAttributeDBException

updateAttribute

public void updateAttribute(AgentID agentID,
                            String attributeName,
                            String attributeValue)
                     throws RemoteException,
                            CorruptAttributeDBException

getDesignations

public Vector getDesignations(String occupation)
                       throws CorruptAttributeDBException,
                              RemoteException

synchronizeAttributes

public void synchronizeAttributes()
                           throws RemoteException,
                                  CorruptAttributeDBException

synchronizeAgents

public void synchronizeAgents()
                       throws RemoteException,
                              CorruptAttributeDBException

synchronizeAgents

public void synchronizeAgents(Object selection)
                       throws RemoteException,
                              CorruptAttributeDBException

addAttributeListener

public void addAttributeListener(AttributeListener attributeListener)
                          throws RemoteException

exportHumanReadable

public void exportHumanReadable(String xfile)
                         throws RemoteException

importHumanReadable

public void importHumanReadable(String ifile)
                         throws RemoteException

saveAttributes

public void saveAttributes()
                    throws RemoteException,
                           CorruptAttributeDBException

getAllAttributes

public Object getAllAttributes()
                        throws RemoteException

addSocietyStrong

public void addSocietyStrong(String society)
                      throws RemoteException,
                             AgentAlreadyInAttributeDBException

addSocietyStrong

public void addSocietyStrong(String society,
                             Hashtable olevel)
                      throws RemoteException,
                             AgentAlreadyInAttributeDBException,
                             CorruptAttributeDBException

addAgentStrong

public void addAgentStrong(String society,
                           String occupation)
                    throws RemoteException,
                           AgentAlreadyInAttributeDBException,
                           MissingAgentInAttributeDBException,
                           CorruptAttributeDBException

removeSociety

public Hashtable removeSociety(String society)
                        throws RemoteException,
                               CorruptAttributeDBException

removeDesignation

public Vector removeDesignation(AgentID agentID)
                         throws RemoteException

updateDesignation

public void updateDesignation(AgentID oldAgentID,
                              String newDesignation)
                       throws RemoteException