cz.cuni.amis.pogamut.episodic.memory
Class IdGenerator

java.lang.Object
  cz.cuni.amis.pogamut.episodic.memory.IdGenerator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class IdGenerator
extends Object
implements Serializable

IdGenerator class is used to generete unique IDs for all nodes in agent's memory. Each node needs a unique ID due to visualization requirements: each node's visualization is represented by a vertex that needs a unique identifier.

There is one instantion of this class in agent's memory and reference to it is passed to inside structures, so all the IDs are provided by one source only.

Author:

Administrator

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

IdGenerator()

Method Summary

int	getNewId() This method returns an ID that was not returned before and ensures that the next time it is called a unique ID will be returned too.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

IdGenerator

public IdGenerator()

Method Detail

getNewId

public int getNewId()

This method returns an ID that was not returned before and ensures that the next time it is called a unique ID will be returned too.

Returns:

A new unique ID for some node.