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package jade.core.behaviours;

import jade.core.behaviours.*;
import jade.lang.acl.*;
import jade.core.*;

/**
 * This abstract class implements a <code>Behaviour</code> that 
 * periodically executes a user-defined piece of code.
 * The user is expected to extend this class re-defining the method
 * <code>onTick()</code> and including the piece of code that 
 * must be periodically executed into it.
 * 
 * @author Giovanni Caire - TILAB
 */
public abstract class TickerBehaviour extends SimpleBehaviour {
	private long wakeupTime, period;
	private boolean finished;
	private int tickCount = 0;
	
	/**
	 * Construct a <code>TickerBehaviour</code> that call its 
	 * <code>onTick()</code> method every <code>period</code> ms.
	 * @param a is the pointer to the agent
	 * @param period the tick period in ms
	 */
	public TickerBehaviour(Agent a, long period) {
		super(a);
		if (period <= 0) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Period must be greater than 0");
		}
		this.period = period;
	}
	
	public void onStart() {
		wakeupTime = System.currentTimeMillis() + period;
	}
	
	public final void action() {
		// Someone else may have stopped us in the meanwhile
		if (!finished) {
			long blockTime = wakeupTime - System.currentTimeMillis();
			if (blockTime <= 0) {
				// Timeout is expired --> execute the user defined action and
				// re-initialize wakeupTime
				tickCount++;
				onTick();
				wakeupTime = System.currentTimeMillis() + period;
				blockTime = period;
			}
			// Maybe this behaviour has been removed within the onTick() method
			if (myAgent != null && !finished) {
				block(blockTime);
			}
		}
	} 
	
	public final boolean done() {
		return finished;
	}
	
	/**
	 This method is invoked periodically with the period defined in the
	 constructor.
	 Subclasses are expected to define this method specifying the action
	 that must be performed at every tick.
	 */
	protected abstract void onTick();
	
	/**
	 * This method must be called to reset the behaviour and starts again
	 * @param period the new tick time
	 */
	public void reset(long period) {
		this.reset();
		if (period <= 0) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Period must be greater than 0");
		}
		this.period = period;
	}
	
	/**
	 * This method must be called to reset the behaviour and starts again
	 * @param timeout indicates in how many milliseconds from now the behaviour
	 * must be waken up again. 
	 */
	public void reset() {
		super.reset();
		finished = false;
		tickCount = 0;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Make this <code>TickerBehaviour</code> terminate.
	 * Calling stop() has the same effect as removing this TickerBehaviour, but is Thread safe
	 */
	public void stop() {
		finished = true;
		restart();
	}
	
	/**
	 * Retrieve how many ticks were done (i.e. how many times this
	 * behaviour was executed) since the last reset.
	 * @return The number of ticks since the last reset
	 */
	public final int getTickCount() {
		return tickCount;
	}
	
	
	//#MIDP_EXCLUDE_BEGIN
	
	// For persistence service
	private void setTickCount(int tc) {
		tickCount = tc;
	}
	
	// For persistence service
	private void setPeriod(long p) {
		period = p;
	}
	
	// For persistence service
	private long getPeriod() {
		return period;
	}
	
	// For persistence service
	private void setWakeupTime(long wt) {
		wakeupTime = wt;
	}
	
	// For persistence service
	private long getWakeupTime() {
		return wakeupTime;
	}
	
	
	//#MIDP_EXCLUDE_END
	
	
}