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View for a moving window extending the specified amount of time into the past, driven entirely by external timing supplied within long-type timestamp values in a field of the event beans that the view receives. The view is completely driven by timestamp values that are supplied by the events it receives, and does not use the system time. It requires a field name as parameter for a field that returns ascending long-type timestamp values. It also requires a long-type parameter setting the time length in milliseconds of the time window. Events are expected to provide long-type timestamp values in natural order. The view does itself not use the current system time for keeping track of the time window, but just the timestamp values supplied by the events sent in. The arrival of new events with a newer timestamp then past events causes the window to be re-evaluated and the oldest events pushed out of the window. Ie. Assume event X1 with timestamp T1 is in the window. When event Xn with timestamp Tn arrives, and the window time length in milliseconds is t, then if ((Tn - T1) > t == true) then event X1 is pushed as oldData out of the window. It is assumed that events are sent in in their natural order and the timestamp values are ascending.

The following tables list the members exposed by the ExternallyTimedWindowView type.

Public Methods

  NameDescription
AddView
Add a view to the viewable object.
(Inherited from ViewSupport.)
AttachesTo
Return null if the view will accept being attached to a particular object.
(Overrides .AttachesTo(Viewable).)
Equals
Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
GetEnumerator
Returns an enumerator that iterates through the collection.
(Overrides .GetEnumerator().)
GetHashCode
Serves as a hash function for a particular type. GetHashCode() is suitable for use in hashing algorithms and data structures like a hash table.
(Inherited from Object.)
GetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
GetViews
Returns all added views.
(Inherited from ViewSupport.)
RemoveView
Remove a view.
(Inherited from ViewSupport.)
ToString
Returns a String that represents the current Object.
(Overrides .ToString().)
Update
Notify that data has been added or removed from the Viewable parent. The last object in the newData array of objects would be the newest object added to the parent view. The first object of the oldData array of objects would be the oldest object removed from the parent view.

If the call to update contains new (inserted) data, then the first argument will be a non-empty list and the second will be empty. Similarly, if the call is a notification of deleted data, then the first argument will be empty and the second will be non-empty. Either the newData or oldData will be non-null. This method won't be called with both arguments being null, but either one could be null. The same is true for zero-length arrays. Either newData or oldData will be non-empty. If both are non-empty, then the update is a modification notification.

When update() is called on a view by the parent object, the data in newData will be in the collection of the parent, and its data structures will be arranged to reflect that. The data in oldData will not be in the parent's data structures, and any access to the parent will indicate that that data is no longer there.

(Overrides .Update(EventBean[](), EventBean[]()).)

Protected Methods

  NameDescription
Finalize
Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Inherited from Object.)
MemberwiseClone
Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)

Protected Fields

  NameDescription
parent
Parent viewable to this view - directly accessible by subclasses.
(Inherited from ViewSupport.)

Public Constructors

  NameDescription
ExternallyTimedWindowViewNewOverloaded.

Public Properties

  NameDescription
EventType
Provides metadata information about the type of object the event collection contains.
(Overrides .EventType.)
HasViews
Test is there are any views to the Viewable.
(Inherited from ViewSupport.)
Id
Gets the unique id for the view
(Inherited from ViewSupport.)
MillisecondsBeforeExpiry
Gets or sets the window size in milliseconds.

Parent
Gets or sets the View's parent viewable.
(Overrides .Parent.)
TimestampFieldName
Gets or sets the field name to get timestamp values from.

Explicit Interface Implementations

  NameDescription
Explicit interface implemetationIEnumerable.System.Collections.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator
Returns an enumerator that iterates through a collection.
(Inherited from ViewSupport.)