edu.vub.at.actors
Interface AsyncMessage

 AsyncMessage

Instances of the class ATAsyncMessage represent first-class asynchronous message sends. They encapsulate a selector symbol and a table of arguments. Additionally, a message -- being a first-class object, may be extended with extra fields and behaviour (attachments). The receiver of an asynchronous message is determined only at message sending time. The receiver is not stored directly within the asynchronous message, but is rather passed as an extra parameter in the Object.meta_send(ATObject, ATAsyncMessage) meta-level method.

Author:

tvcutsem

Field Summary

Object	getLocationFilename
Object	getLocationLine

Method Summary

Object

process(Object receiver) This method is responsible for processing the message in a certain actor.

Methods inherited from interface edu.vub.at.objects.Message

arguments:=, arguments, from, selector, sendTo

Methods inherited from interface edu.vub.at.objects.Object

super

Field Detail

getLocationLine

Object getLocationLine

getLocationFilename

Object getLocationFilename

Method Detail

process

Object process(Object receiver)

This method is responsible for processing the message in a certain actor. By default, process invokes the method corresponding to its selector: def process(receiver) { (reflect: receiver).invoke(receiver, self.selector, self.arguments) }

Parameters:

receiver - the object that has been designated to receive the message