org.jactr.core.production.action
Class ExecuteAction

java.lang.Object
  org.jactr.core.production.action.DefaultAction
      org.jactr.core.production.action.ExecuteAction

All Implemented Interfaces:

IAction

public class ExecuteAction
extends DefaultAction

The ExecuteAction is a convenience IAction that permits the execution of an arbitrary Runnable class?s run method. When the ExecuteAction is fired, the class is instantiated and the reflection mechanism is used to get the run method and calls it.

Author:

harrison

Field Summary

java.lang.String

_className Description of the Field

Constructor Summary

ExecuteAction()
Constructor for the ExecuteAction object

ExecuteAction(java.lang.String className)
Constructor that takes the fully qualified class name of the Runnable class.

Method Summary

IAction	bind(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> variableBindings) Bind is called during the creation of an instantiation of a produciton.
double	fire(IInstantiation instantiation, double firingTime) Description of the Method
java.lang.String	getClassName() Gets the className attribute of the ExecuteAction object
void	setClassName(java.lang.String name) Sets the className attribute of the ExecuteAction object

Methods inherited from class org.jactr.core.production.action.DefaultAction

dispose, resolve

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

_className

public java.lang.String _className

Description of the Field

Constructor Detail

ExecuteAction

public ExecuteAction(java.lang.String className)

Constructor that takes the fully qualified class name of the Runnable class. Note: the class must use an empty constructor. Later implementations will support the specification of specific class instances. [Why not already? Everything needs to be serializable to XML. Providing access to arbitrary objects violates this requirement]

Parameters:

className - Description of the Parameter

ExecuteAction

public ExecuteAction()

Constructor for the ExecuteAction object

Method Detail

bind

public IAction bind(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> variableBindings)

Description copied from interface: IAction

Bind is called during the creation of an instantiation of a produciton. By the time this gets called, we know that all the conditions are matched and all the variables have been assigned. This method merely creates a copy of this action and applies those bindings. the IAction returned by this method will be the actual one that is fired. Normally, an action should not change the contents of variableBindings

Returns:

getClassName

public java.lang.String getClassName()

Gets the className attribute of the ExecuteAction object

Returns:

The className value

setClassName

public void setClassName(java.lang.String name)

Sets the className attribute of the ExecuteAction object

Parameters:

name - The new className value

fire

public double fire(IInstantiation instantiation,
                   double firingTime)

Description of the Method

Specified by:

fire in interface IAction

Specified by:

fire in class DefaultAction

Parameters:

instantiation - Description of the Parameter

firingTime - when this production was fired

Returns:

Description of the Return Value