de.cesr.lara.components.agents
Interface LaraAgent<A extends LaraAgent<A,BO>,BO extends LaraBehaviouralOption<?,? extends BO>>

Type Parameters:

A - the agent type of the implementing class

BO - the type of behavioural options the implementing agent class works with

All Superinterfaces:

LaraAbstractEventSubscriber, LaraEventSubscriber

All Known Implementing Classes:

Agent, LAbstractAgent, MyAgent

public interface LaraAgent<A extends LaraAgent<A,BO>,BO extends LaraBehaviouralOption<?,? extends BO>>
extends LaraEventSubscriber

The class uses recursive generics since the LaraAgentComponent requires the type of agent. See Maurice, M. N. & Wadler, P. Java Generics and Collections O'Reilly Media, 2006, p. 133ff. See also http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/typesValues.html#4.5 A Type parameter cannot be generic. Furthermore, one cannot define more than one type in one ActualTypeArgument (T). So one needs to workaround with two ActualTypeArguments declarations (S extends LaraAgent, T extends Interface). Agents also work with BOs that require (only) a super class of their (agent) class.

Method Summary

String	getAgentId() Get the custom agent id.
LaraAgentComponent<A,BO>	getLaraComp() Returns the LaraAgentComponent of this agent.

Methods inherited from interface de.cesr.lara.components.eventbus.LaraEventSubscriber

onEvent

Method Detail

getAgentId

String getAgentId()

Get the custom agent id.

Returns:

agent id string

getLaraComp

LaraAgentComponent<A,BO> getLaraComp()

Returns the LaraAgentComponent of this agent.

Returns:

component Lara agent component