Package org.jcsp.lang

Class BlackHoleChannelInt

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    ChannelOutputInt, Poisonable

    public class BlackHoleChannelInt
    extends Object
    implements ChannelOutputInt
    This implements ChannelOutputInt with black hole semantics.

    Description

    BlackHoleChannelInt is an implementation of ChannelOutputInt that yields black hole semantics for a channel. Writers may always write but there can be no readers. Any number of writers may share the same black hole.

    Note: BlackHoleChannelInts are used for masking off unwanted outputs from processes. They are useful when we want to reuse an existing process component intact, but don't need some of its output channels (i.e. we don't want to redesign and reimplement the component to remove the redundant channels). Normal channels cannot be plugged in and left dangling as this may deadlock (parts of) the component being reused.

    Author:
    P.H. Welch
    See Also:
    ChannelOutputInt, One2OneChannelInt, Any2OneChannelInt, One2AnyChannelInt, Any2AnyChannelInt
    • Constructor Detail

      • BlackHoleChannelInt

        public BlackHoleChannelInt()
    • Method Detail

      • write

        public void write​(int n)
        Write an integer to the channel and loose it.
        Specified by:
        write in interface ChannelOutputInt
        Parameters:
        n - the integer to write to the channel.
      • poison

        public void poison​(int strength)
        Description copied from interface: Poisonable
        This injects poison into the channel. If the channel was not explicitly constructed to be poisonable or if the strength of poison is not greater than the channel immunity level, the poison will have no effect.
        Specified by:
        poison in interface Poisonable
        Parameters:
        strength - the strength of the poison (must be >= 0).