com.agentfactory.cldc.mts
Class MessageContainer

java.lang.Object
  com.agentfactory.cldc.mts.MessageContainer

public class MessageContainer
extends java.lang.Object

The message container represents a list of messages.

Author:

Conor Muldoon

Constructor Summary

MessageContainer()
Creates a new instance of MessageContainer.

Method Summary

void	addMessage(Message msg) Adds a message to the container.
FOS	createMessageFOS() Creates a first order structure representation of the message list.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MessageContainer

public MessageContainer()

Creates a new instance of MessageContainer.

Method Detail

addMessage

public void addMessage(Message msg)

Adds a message to the container.

Parameters:

msg - the message to be added.

createMessageFOS

public FOS createMessageFOS()
                     throws MalformedLogicException

Creates a first order structure representation of the message list. The first order structure takes the form messages(message1,message2,..., messageN).

Returns:

null if there are no messages, otherwise a first order structure of the form messages(message1,message2,...), whereby each message is converted to its belief string representation.

Throws:

MalformedLogicException - if there is a logic error.