cz.cuni.amis.pogamut.base.agent
Interface IAgentId

All Superinterfaces:

cz.cuni.amis.utils.token.IToken, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

ITeamedAgentId

All Known Implementing Classes:

AgentId, AgentIdJMXProxy, AgentTeamedId, TeamedAgentId

@MXBean
public interface IAgentId
extends cz.cuni.amis.utils.token.IToken, Serializable

Extension of the IToken, it provides an ability to give an agent a human-readable name.

Serializable! Implementors must behave accordingly.

Author:

Jimmy

Method Summary

cz.cuni.amis.utils.flag.Flag<String>	getName() Contains a human-readable name of the agent.
String	getToken() Must return token that is unique even across different JVMs.

Methods inherited from interface cz.cuni.amis.utils.token.IToken

getIds

Method Detail

getName

cz.cuni.amis.utils.flag.Flag<String> getName()

Contains a human-readable name of the agent.

Note that the name is quite different string than getToken(). The token contains unique-identifier of the agent across whole JVMs in the world, but the name is just human-readable identifier that can be even changed over time.

Therefore, the name should not be used for any compares or interpretation.

Returns:

getToken

String getToken()

Must return token that is unique even across different JVMs.

Specified by:

getToken in interface cz.cuni.amis.utils.token.IToken

Returns:

token