groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator
Class DataflowPrioritySelector

java.lang.Object
  groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator.DataflowProcessor
      groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator.DataflowSelector
          groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator.DataflowPrioritySelector

public final class DataflowPrioritySelector
extends DataflowSelector

Dataflow selectors and operators (processors) form the basic units in dataflow networks. They are typically combined into oriented graphs that transform data. They accept a set of input and output dataflow channels so that once values are available to be consumed in any of the input channels the selector's body is triggered on the values, potentially generating values to be written into the output channels. The output channels at the same time are suitable to be used as input channels by some other dataflow processors. The channels allow processors to communicate.

Dataflow selectors and operators enable creation of highly concurrent applications yet the abstraction hides the low-level concurrency primitives and exposes much friendlier API. Since selectors and operators internally leverage the actor implementation, they reuse a pool of threads and so the actual number of threads used by the calculation can be kept much lower than the actual number of processors used in the network.

Priority selectors prefer to select messages from channels with lower position index.

Author:

Vaclav Pech Date: Sep 23, 2009

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator.DataflowSelector

guards, select

Fields inherited from class groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator.DataflowProcessor

actor, INPUTS, listeners, MAX_FORKS, OUTPUTS, STATE_OBJECT, stateObject

Constructor Summary

DataflowPrioritySelector(PGroup group, java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> channels, groovy.lang.Closure code)
Creates a priority selector After creation the selector needs to be started using the start() method.

Method Summary

void	doSelect() Ask for another select operation on the internal select instance.

Methods inherited from class groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator.DataflowSelector

allGuardsClosed, setGuard, setGuards

Methods inherited from class groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator.DataflowProcessor

addDataflowEventListener, bindAllOutputs, bindAllOutputsAtomically, bindAllOutputValues, bindAllOutputValuesAtomically, bindOutput, bindOutput, extractInputs, extractOutputs, fireAfterRun, fireAfterStart, fireAfterStop, fireBeforeRun, fireControlMessageArrived, fireCustomEvent, fireMessageArrived, fireMessageSentOut, fireOnException, getOutput, getOutputs, getOutputs, getStateObject, checkMaxForks, join, registerChannelListenersToAllInputs, removeDataflowEventListener, reportError, shouldBeMultiThreaded, start, start, terminate, terminateAfterNextRun

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DataflowPrioritySelector

public DataflowPrioritySelector(PGroup group,
                                java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> channels,
                                groovy.lang.Closure code)

Creates a priority selector After creation the selector needs to be started using the start() method.

Parameters:

group - A parallel group to use threads from in the internal actor

channels - A map specifying "inputs" and "outputs" - dataflow channels (instances of the DataflowQueue or DataflowVariable classes) to use for inputs and outputs

code - The selector's body to run each time all inputs have a value to read

Method Detail

doSelect

public void doSelect()

Ask for another select operation on the internal select instance. The selector's guards are applied to the selection.

Overrides:

doSelect in class DataflowSelector