si.ijs.acs.objectexplorer.engine

Interface SimpleIntrospectable

All Known Subinterfaces:

BACIRemote, Introspectable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BACIInvocation, BACIRemoteNode, DelegateInvocation, DelegateRemoteNode, Invocation

public interface SimpleIntrospectable

This interface represents the remote object. Name of the interface signifies that the instances are able to return metadata about themselves, such as listings of all remote methods and attributes that they declare. All introspectable instances have a name. How this name is mapped to the remote reference depends on the engine implementation.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Attribute[]	getAttributes() This method returns all attributes declared by this introspectable instance.
java.lang.String	getName() Returns the name of this introspectable.
Operation[]	getOperations() Returns all operations declared by this introspectable.

Method Detail

getAttributes

Attribute[] getAttributes()

This method returns all attributes declared by this introspectable instance. Before this method is called, the introspectable must have been connected.

Returns:

an array of declared attribute objects

getName

java.lang.String getName()

Returns the name of this introspectable. Note that the implementing object should overload the toString() method to return the same value to provide GUI with a standardized way to display the introspectable in components such as lists or trees.

Returns:

name of this

getOperations

Operation[] getOperations()

Returns all operations declared by this introspectable. Before this method is called the introspectable instance must have been connected. The operations exclude attribute mutator and accessor methods.

Returns:

operations declared by the introspectable.