ch.sahits.game.openpatrician.engine

Class AbstractEngine

java.lang.Object

ch.sahits.game.openpatrician.engine.AbstractEngine

Direct Known Subclasses:

AIPlayerEngine, AutomaticTradingEngine, CaptainEngine, CityEngine, LoanerEngine, ShipyardEngine, TavernEngine

public abstract class AbstractEngine
extends Object

This is the base class for all engine classes. An engine dives a certain aspect of the game. As everything is event driven through the AsyncEventBus the engine will be triggered in a separate thread.

Author:

Andi Hotz, (c) Sahits GmbH, 2014 Created on Jan 22, 2014

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractEngine()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract List<AbstractEngine>	getChildren() Any engine may hold various child engines.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AbstractEngine

public AbstractEngine()

Method Detail

getChildren

public abstract List<AbstractEngine> getChildren()

Any engine may hold various child engines. This is the way to retrieve them. If there are no child engines, return an empty list. Subclasses have to implement this in the proper way.

Returns:

list of child engines.