groovyx.gpars.actor
Class DynamicDispatchActor

java.lang.Object
  groovyx.gpars.serial.WithSerialId
      groovyx.gpars.actor.impl.MessageStream
          groovyx.gpars.actor.Actor
              groovyx.gpars.actor.AbstractLoopingActor
                  groovyx.gpars.actor.DynamicDispatchActor

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class DynamicDispatchActor
extends AbstractLoopingActor

A pooled actor allowing for an alternative structure of the message handling code. In general DynamicDispatchActor repeatedly scans for messages and dispatches arrived messages to one of the onMessage(message) methods defined on the actor.

 final class MyActor extends DynamicDispatchActor {*      void onMessage(String message) {*          println 'Received string'
 }*      void onMessage(Integer message) {*          println 'Received integer'
 }*      void onMessage(Object message) {*          println 'Received object'
 }*      void onMessage(NullObject nullMessage) {*          println 'Received null'
 }*} 

Method when {...} provides an alternative way to define message handlers

Author:

Vaclav Pech, Alex Tkachman, Dierk Koenig Date: Jun 26, 2009

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Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class groovyx.gpars.actor.Actor

Actor.MyRemoteHandle, Actor.RemoteActor

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class groovyx.gpars.actor.impl.MessageStream

MessageStream.RemoteMessageStream, MessageStream.SendTo

Field Summary

private static long

serialVersionUID

Fields inherited from class groovyx.gpars.actor.AbstractLoopingActor

terminatingFlag

Fields inherited from class groovyx.gpars.actor.Actor

ACTOR_HAS_ALREADY_BEEN_STARTED, CANNOT_SEND_REPLIES_NO_SENDER_HAS_BEEN_REGISTERED, currentThread, parallelGroup, START_MESSAGE, STOP_MESSAGE, TERMINATE_MESSAGE, TIMEOUT, TIMEOUT_MESSAGE, timer

Fields inherited from class groovyx.gpars.serial.WithSerialId

serialHandle

Constructor Summary

DynamicDispatchActor()
Creates a new instance without any when handlers registered

Method Summary

DynamicDispatchActor	become(groovy.lang.Closure closure) Executes the supplied closure in the context of the actor to set all when() handlers
void	when(groovy.lang.Closure closure)

Methods inherited from class groovyx.gpars.actor.AbstractLoopingActor

getCore, getSender, hasBeenStopped, initialize, isActive, isFair, makeFair, reply, replyIfExists, send, setParallelGroup, setTimeout, silentStart, start, stop, sweepNextMessage, terminate

Methods inherited from class groovyx.gpars.actor.Actor

createActorMessage, createRemoteHandle, deregisterCurrentActorWithThread, getJoinLatch, getParallelGroup, handleException, handleInterrupt, handleStart, handleTermination, handleTimeout, isActorThread, join, join, join, join, onStop, registerCurrentActorWithThread, sendAndContinue, sendAndPromise, sweepQueue, threadBoundActor

Methods inherited from class groovyx.gpars.actor.impl.MessageStream

call, getRemoteClass, leftShift, send, send, sendAndWait, sendAndWait, sendAndWait

Methods inherited from class groovyx.gpars.serial.WithSerialId

getOrCreateSerialHandle, writeReplace

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

serialVersionUID

private static final long serialVersionUID

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

DynamicDispatchActor

public DynamicDispatchActor()

Creates a new instance without any when handlers registered

Method Detail

become

public final DynamicDispatchActor become(groovy.lang.Closure closure)

Executes the supplied closure in the context of the actor to set all when() handlers

Parameters:

closure - A sequence of when() handlers to set on the actor

Returns:

This actor to allow for method chaining

when

public final void when(groovy.lang.Closure closure)