com.ge.research.acuity
Class InterfaceAdapter

java.lang.Object
  com.ge.research.acuity.InterfaceAdapter

Direct Known Subclasses:

ScriptInvocationIA

public abstract class InterfaceAdapter

extends java.lang.Object

Abstract specialization utility class that performs the interface operations for a specific function or function grouping, between the AcuityController and an ACUITy UI client application.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2006/08/11 00:17:21 $

Author:

garbiras

Created on:

Jul 5, 2005

Field Summary

protected AcuityController	controller The reference to a AcuityController used by the ControllerInterface
protected ControllerInterface	controllerInterface The reference to a ControllerInterface to use to process requests

Constructor Summary

InterfaceAdapter(ControllerInterface ci, AcuityController ac)
Default constructor.

Method Summary

protected void	checkControllers() Checks to see if this class contains references to a valid ControllerInterface and a valid AcuityController
void	finalize() Releases the references to the ControllerInterface and AcuityController for garbage collection.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

controllerInterface

protected ControllerInterface controllerInterface

The reference to a ControllerInterface to use to process requests

controller

protected AcuityController controller

The reference to a AcuityController used by the ControllerInterface

Constructor Detail

InterfaceAdapter

public InterfaceAdapter(ControllerInterface ci,
                        AcuityController ac)
                 throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Default constructor. Sets up the references to the ControllerInterface and AcuityController to use.

Parameters:

ci - the ControllerInterface to use

ac - the AcuityController to use

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If either of the arguments is null

Method Detail

finalize

public void finalize()

Releases the references to the ControllerInterface and AcuityController for garbage collection.

checkControllers

protected final void checkControllers()
                               throws java.lang.IllegalStateException

Checks to see if this class contains references to a valid ControllerInterface and a valid AcuityController

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - If the class reference to the ControllerInterface is null, or if the ControllerInterface.checkController() method throws such an error.

See Also:

ControllerInterface.checkController()