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Interface InputChannel

All Known Implementing Classes:

Channel

public interface InputChannel

This is the interface to recieve objects from a channel. It defines one method, readObject().

Version:

$Id: InputChannel.java,v 1.3 2004/01/14 21:43:17 gus Exp $

Author:

Todd C. Parnell, tparnell@ai.mit.edu

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

readObject() Attempt to get an object in the channel.

Method Detail

readObject

public java.lang.Object readObject()
                            throws ChannelEmptyException,
                                   ChannelDisabledException

Attempt to get an object in the channel.

Returns:

the oldest object in the channel

Throws:

ChannelEmptyException - if no objects are available in the channel

ChannelDisabledException - if the user has disabled the channel