rice.p2p.scribe
Interface ScribePolicy

All Known Implementing Classes:

ScribePolicy.DefaultScribePolicy, SplitStreamScribePolicy

public interface ScribePolicy

Version:

$Id: ScribePolicy.java,v 1.1 2003/09/28 08:16:29 amislove Exp $

Author:

Alan Mislove

Nested Class Summary

static class	ScribePolicy.DefaultScribePolicy The default policy for Scribe, which always allows new children to join and adds children in the order in which they are provided, implicitly providing a depth-first search.
static class	ScribePolicy.LimitedScribePolicy An optional policy for Scribe, which allows up to a specified number of children per topic.

Method Summary

boolean	allowSubscribe(rice.p2p.scribe.messaging.SubscribeMessage message, rice.p2p.scribe.ScribeClient[] clients, rice.p2p.commonapi.NodeHandle[] children) This method is called when the newChild is about to become our child, and the policy should return whether or not the child should be allowed to become our child.
void	directAnycast(rice.p2p.scribe.messaging.AnycastMessage message, rice.p2p.commonapi.NodeHandle parent, rice.p2p.commonapi.NodeHandle[] children) This method is called when an anycast is received which is not satisfied at the local node.

Method Detail

allowSubscribe

public boolean allowSubscribe(rice.p2p.scribe.messaging.SubscribeMessage message,
                              rice.p2p.scribe.ScribeClient[] clients,
                              rice.p2p.commonapi.NodeHandle[] children)

This method is called when the newChild is about to become our child, and the policy should return whether or not the child should be allowed to become our child. If the length of children and clients is both 0, allowing the child to join will have the effect of implicitly subscribing this node the the given topic.

Parameters:

message - The subscribe message in question

children - The list of children who are currently subscribed to this topic

clients - The list of clients are are currently subscribed to this topic

Returns:

Whether or not this child should be allowed add.

directAnycast

public void directAnycast(rice.p2p.scribe.messaging.AnycastMessage message,
                          rice.p2p.commonapi.NodeHandle parent,
                          rice.p2p.commonapi.NodeHandle[] children)

This method is called when an anycast is received which is not satisfied at the local node. This method should add both the parent and child nodes to the anycast's to-search list, but this method allows different policies concerning the order of the adding as well as selectively adding nodes.

Parameters:

message - The anycast message in question

parent - Our current parent for this message's topic

children - Our current children for this message's topic