org.intellimate.izou.activator

Interface ActivatorModel

All Superinterfaces:

Callable<Boolean>, Identifiable

public interface ActivatorModel
extends Identifiable, Callable<Boolean>

The Task of an Activator is to listen for whatever you choose to implement and fires events to notify a change.

The Activator always runs in the Background, just overwrite activatorStarts(). To use Activator simply extend from it and hand an instance over to the ActivatorManager.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Boolean	call() it this method returns false (and only if it returns false) it will not get restarted once stopped

Methods inherited from interface org.intellimate.izou.identification.Identifiable

getID, isOwner

Method Detail

call

Boolean call()
      throws Exception

it this method returns false (and only if it returns false) it will not get restarted once stopped

Internally there is a limit of 100 times the activator is allowed to finish exceptionally (everything but returning false)

Specified by:

call in interface Callable<Boolean>

Returns:

true if the activator should get restarted, false if not

Throws:

Exception - if unable to compute a result