com.agentfactory.cldc.p2pmts
Class LookupYP

java.lang.Object
  com.agentfactory.cldc.logic.Action
      com.agentfactory.cldc.Actuator
          com.agentfactory.cldc.p2pmts.LookupYP

public class LookupYP
extends Actuator

The lookup yellow pages actuator is when an agent wishes to obtain the name and address of an agent that performs a particular service. The trigger for the lookup yellow pages actuator is lookupYP(?discURL,?service), where the ?discURL variable represents the address of the discovery server and the ?service variable represents the type of service. The agent adopts the belief yellowPages(?server,?agt,?addr) once the name and address of an agent that provides the service has been obtained.

Author:

Conor Muldoon

Constructor Summary

LookupYP(AffectManager manager)
Creates an instance of LookupYP.

Method Summary

boolean

act(FOS action) The act method is implemented by concrete classes of Action.

Methods inherited from class com.agentfactory.cldc.Actuator

adoptBelief, adoptBelief, register, retractBelief

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LookupYP

public LookupYP(AffectManager manager)

Creates an instance of LookupYP.

Parameters:

manager - the affect manager for the agent.

Method Detail

act

public boolean act(FOS action)

Description copied from class: Action

The act method is implemented by concrete classes of Action. It provides the imperative functionality of the action.

Specified by:

act in class Action

Parameters:

action - the applied first order stucture, which matches with the identifier for the Actuator or Action.

Returns:

true if the action was successful, false otherwise.