bdi4jade.message

Class MessageGoal

java.lang.Object

bdi4jade.message.MessageGoal

All Implemented Interfaces:

Goal, jade.content.Concept, jade.content.ContentElement, jade.content.Term, java.io.Serializable

public class MessageGoal
extends java.lang.Object
implements Goal

This class represents the goal of processing a message received by the agent.

Author:

Ingrid Nunes

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	MessageGoal() The default constructor.
	MessageGoal(jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage message) Initializes a message goal with the given message.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage	getMessage() Returns the message associated with this message goal.
protected void	setMessage(jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage message) Sets the message of this goal.
java.lang.String	toString() Returns a string representation of this goal, in the form "MessageGoal: message".

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MessageGoal

protected MessageGoal()

The default constructor. It should be only used if persistence frameworks are used.

MessageGoal

public MessageGoal(jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage message)

Initializes a message goal with the given message.

Parameters:

message - the message to be processed.

Method Detail

getMessage

@Parameter(direction=IN)
public jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage getMessage()

Returns the message associated with this message goal.

Returns:

the message

setMessage

protected void setMessage(jade.lang.acl.ACLMessage message)

Sets the message of this goal. Ideally, the message should be final and initialized in the constructor. This method should be only used if persistence frameworks are used.

Parameters:

message - the message to set

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns a string representation of this goal, in the form "MessageGoal: message".

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

the string representation of this message goal.

See Also:

Object.toString()