Package jade.lang.acl

Class LEAPACLCodec

java.lang.Object

jade.lang.acl.LEAPACLCodec

All Implemented Interfaces:

ACLCodec

public class LEAPACLCodec
extends Object
implements ACLCodec

This class implements the LEAP codec for ACLMessages.

Version:

$Date$ $Revision$

Author:

Jerome Picault - Motorola Labs, Giovanni Caire - TILAB

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface jade.lang.acl.ACLCodec

ACLCodec.CodecException

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static String	NAME

Fields inherited from interface jade.lang.acl.ACLCodec

DEFAULT_CHARSET

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
LEAPACLCodec()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ACLMessage	decode(byte[] data, String charset)	Recovers an ACLMessage object back from raw data, using the specific message representation to interpret the byte sequence.
static ACLMessage	deserializeACL(DataInputStream dis)
static AID	deserializeAID(DataInputStream dis)
byte[]	encode(ACLMessage msg, String charset)	Encodes an ACLMessage object into a byte sequence, according to the specific message representation.
String	getName()	Query the name of the message representation handled by this Codec object.
static void	serializeACL(ACLMessage msg, DataOutputStream dos)
static void	serializeAID(AID id, DataOutputStream dos)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

NAME

public static final String NAME

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

LEAPACLCodec

public LEAPACLCodec()

Method Detail

encode

public byte[] encode(ACLMessage msg,
                     String charset)

Encodes an ACLMessage object into a byte sequence, according to the specific message representation.

Specified by:

encode in interface ACLCodec

Parameters:

msg - The ACL message to encode.

charset - This parameter is not taken into account

Returns:

a byte array, containing the encoded message.

decode

public ACLMessage decode(byte[] data,
                         String charset)
                  throws ACLCodec.CodecException

Recovers an ACLMessage object back from raw data, using the specific message representation to interpret the byte sequence.

Specified by:

decode in interface ACLCodec

Parameters:

data - The byte sequence containing the encoded message.

charset - This parameter is not taken into account

Returns:

A new ACLMessage object, built from the raw data.

Throws:

ACLCodec.CodecException - If some kind of syntax error occurs.

getName

public String getName()

Query the name of the message representation handled by this Codec object. The FIPA standard representations have a name starting with "fipa.acl.rep.".

Specified by:

getName in interface ACLCodec

Returns:

The name of the handled ACL message representation.

serializeACL

public static final void serializeACL(ACLMessage msg,
                                      DataOutputStream dos)
                               throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

deserializeACL

public static final ACLMessage deserializeACL(DataInputStream dis)
                                       throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

serializeAID

public static final void serializeAID(AID id,
                                      DataOutputStream dos)
                               throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

deserializeAID

public static final AID deserializeAID(DataInputStream dis)
                                throws IOException

Throws:

IOException