vs.rationalagent.behaviour
Class ReceiveBehaviour

java.lang.Object
  jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour
      jade.core.behaviours.SimpleBehaviour
          vs.rationalagent.behaviour.ReceiveBehaviour

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

Deprecated. ReceiveBehaviour: a more user friendly ReceiverBehaviour Creation: new ReceiveBehaviour(Agent, Timeout (or -1), MessageTemplate ) - terminates when 1) desired message is received OR timeout expires - on termination, handle(msg) is called ( J.Vaucher sept. 7 2003 ) http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vaucher/Agents/Jade/primer6.html

@Deprecated
public abstract class ReceiveBehaviour
extends jade.core.behaviours.SimpleBehaviour

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

STATE_BLOCKED, STATE_READY, STATE_RUNNING

Constructor Summary

ReceiveBehaviour(jade.core.Agent a, int millis, jade.lang.acl.MessageTemplate mt)
Deprecated. Constructor

Method Summary

void	action() Deprecated. Called when behaviour is active
boolean	done() Deprecated. Action is done when finished = true
jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage	getMessage() Deprecated. Gets the message
abstract boolean	handle(jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage msg) Deprecated. Defines how to handle this message.
void	onStart() Deprecated. Called when behaviour starts
void	reset() Deprecated.
void	reset(int dt) Deprecated.

Methods inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

actionWrapper, block, block, getBehaviourName, getDataStore, getExecutionState, isRunnable, onEnd, restart, root, setAgent, setBehaviourName, setDataStore, setExecutionState

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ReceiveBehaviour

public ReceiveBehaviour(jade.core.Agent a,
                        int millis,
                        jade.lang.acl.MessageTemplate mt)

Deprecated.

Constructor

Parameters:

a - The agent of this Behaviour

millis - timeout (-1 if no timeout)

mt - Message Template for message to receive

Method Detail

action

public void action()

Deprecated.

Called when behaviour is active

Specified by:

action in class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

done

public boolean done()

Deprecated.

Action is done when finished = true

Specified by:

done in class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

getMessage

public jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage getMessage()

Deprecated.

Gets the message

Returns:

the ACLMessage

handle

public abstract boolean handle(jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage msg)

Deprecated.

Defines how to handle this message.

Parameters:

msg - the received ACL message, or null if time out

Returns:

whether the ACL message was handled. I.e. if it was put back, this method should return false.

onStart

public void onStart()

Deprecated.

Called when behaviour starts

Overrides:

onStart in class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

reset

public void reset()

Deprecated.

Overrides:

reset in class jade.core.behaviours.SimpleBehaviour

reset

public void reset(int dt)

Deprecated.