CallbackListener.java

/********************************************************************************
 *
 * JOrocos Library
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2011
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Luca Gherardi
 * University of Bergamo
 * Dept. of Information Technology and Mathematics
 *
 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * File: CallbackListener.java
 * Created: Jul 27, 2011
 *
 * Author: <A HREF="mailto:luca.gherardi@unibg.it">Luca Gherardi</A>
 * 
 * Supervised by: <A HREF="mailto:brugali@unibg.it">Davide Brugali</A>
 * 
 * In cooperation with: <A HREF="mailto:herman.bruyninckx@mech.kuleuven.be">Herman Bruyninckx</A>
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package it.unibg.robotics.jorocos.interfaces;

/**
 * This interface has to be implemented by the client of an Orocos component that need to call
 * operations asynchronously. 
 * 
 * The interface provides a method that will be called in order to notify the client 
 * when the result of the operation will be available
 * 
 * @author <A HREF="mailto:luca.gherardi@unibg.it">Luca Gherardi</A>
 * @version 1.0
 * @since August 2011
 */
public interface CallbackListener {

	/**
	 * Notify the client when the result of an operation is available
	 * 
	 * @param serviceName the name of the service which computed the operation
	 * @param operationName the name of the operation
	 * @param returnValue the result of the operation
	 */
	public void callback(String serviceName, String operationName, Object returnValue);
	
}