infoservice.agreement.multicast.interfaces
Interface IInfoService

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEMCAdapter, InfoserviceEMCAdapter

public interface IInfoService

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getIdentifier() Returns an unique identifier for this IInfoService
int	getNumberOfAllInfoservices() Returns the number of known InfoServices
void	handleMessage(IAgreementMessage a_message) Handles the incomming IAgreementMessage
void	multicastMessage(IAgreementMessage a_message) Multicasts the given message to all known InfoServices (except this one)
void	notifyAgreement(java.lang.Long a_oldCommonRandomSeed, java.lang.Long a_newCommonRandomSeed) Callback of the agreement handler.
void	sendMessageTo(java.lang.String a_id, IAgreementMessage a_echoMessage) Sends the given message to the InfoService with the given ID

Method Detail

getIdentifier

java.lang.String getIdentifier()

Returns an unique identifier for this IInfoService

Returns:

An unique identifier for this IInfoService

handleMessage

void handleMessage(IAgreementMessage a_message)

Handles the incomming IAgreementMessage

Parameters:

a_message -

multicastMessage

void multicastMessage(IAgreementMessage a_message)

Multicasts the given message to all known InfoServices (except this one)

Parameters:

a_message -

sendMessageTo

void sendMessageTo(java.lang.String a_id,
                   IAgreementMessage a_echoMessage)

Sends the given message to the InfoService with the given ID

Parameters:

a_id - The ID of the InfoService

a_echoMessage - The message

notifyAgreement

void notifyAgreement(java.lang.Long a_oldCommonRandomSeed,
                     java.lang.Long a_newCommonRandomSeed)

Callback of the agreement handler. Gets called if an agreement was reached

Parameters:

a_newCommonRandomSeed - The newly agreed upon common random

getNumberOfAllInfoservices

int getNumberOfAllInfoservices()

Returns the number of known InfoServices

Returns:

The number of known InfoServices