rice.environment.processing
Class WorkRequest

java.lang.Object
  rice.environment.processing.WorkRequest

public abstract class WorkRequest

extends java.lang.Object

Extend this class and implement doWork() if you need to do blocking disk IO. This is primarily used by Persistence.

Version:

$Id: pretty.settings,v 1.3 2005/03/11 20:22:33 jeffh Exp $

Author:

Jeff Hoye

Constructor Summary

WorkRequest()
Constructor for WorkRequest.

WorkRequest(Continuation c, SelectorManager sm)
Constructor for WorkRequest.

Method Summary

abstract java.lang.Object	doWork() DESCRIBE THE METHOD
void	returnError(java.lang.Exception e) DESCRIBE THE METHOD
void	returnResult(java.lang.Object o) DESCRIBE THE METHOD
void	run() Main processing method for the WorkRequest object

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WorkRequest

public WorkRequest(Continuation c,
                   SelectorManager sm)

Constructor for WorkRequest.

Parameters:

c - DESCRIBE THE PARAMETER

sm - DESCRIBE THE PARAMETER

WorkRequest

public WorkRequest()

Constructor for WorkRequest.

Method Detail

returnResult

public void returnResult(java.lang.Object o)

DESCRIBE THE METHOD

Parameters:

o - DESCRIBE THE PARAMETER

returnError

public void returnError(java.lang.Exception e)

DESCRIBE THE METHOD

Parameters:

e - DESCRIBE THE PARAMETER

run

public void run()

Main processing method for the WorkRequest object

doWork

public abstract java.lang.Object doWork()
                                 throws java.lang.Exception

DESCRIBE THE METHOD

Returns:

DESCRIBE THE RETURN VALUE

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - DESCRIBE THE EXCEPTION