brahms.communication
Class CreateCommunicativeActActivity

java.lang.Object
  gov.nasa.arc.brahms.vm.api.jac.AbstractExternalActivity
      brahms.communication.CreateCommunicativeActActivity

All Implemented Interfaces:

IExternalActivity

public class CreateCommunicativeActActivity
extends AbstractExternalActivity

The CreateCommunicativeActActivity creates a new CommunicativeAct object with the specified sender, receiver, subject, action, performative and replyTo agent. It stores the beliefs about these attributes in the CommunicativeAct's 'envelope' and 'payload' maps. This activity requires seven parameters in the Brahms java activity declaration:

• ActiveInstance plSender (the sender of the communicative act)
• ActiveInstance plReceiver (the receiver of the communicative act)
• ActiveInstance plReplyTo (optional, the agent to reply to, set to the sender if unknown)
• symbol plPerformative (the FIPA communicative act type)
• string plConversationID (optional, the conversation id to use, one will be generated if not specified)
• symbol plAction (the message action)
• symbol plSubject (the subject of the message)
• CommunicativeAct communicativeAct (a variable to store the created CommunicativeAct)

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2007/10/10 14:02:58 $ $Author: rvhoof $

Author:

Mike Scott

Field Summary

static org.apache.log4j.Logger

LOGGER

Constructor Summary

CreateCommunicativeActActivity()

Method Summary

void	doActivity() Executes the java activity action.

Methods inherited from class gov.nasa.arc.brahms.vm.api.jac.AbstractExternalActivity

assertBelief, assertFact, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, conclude, getContext, getModel, getName, getParameter, getParameterCount, getPerformedBy, getVMController, getWorldState, isValidTruthValue, retractBelief, retractFact, send, send, send, send, setActivity, setProperties, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

LOGGER

public static final org.apache.log4j.Logger LOGGER

Constructor Detail

CreateCommunicativeActActivity

public CreateCommunicativeActActivity()

Method Detail

doActivity

public void doActivity()
                throws ExternalException

Executes the java activity action.

Specified by:

doActivity in interface IExternalActivity

Specified by:

doActivity in class AbstractExternalActivity

Throws:

ExternalException - if an unrecoverable error occurs.