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com.cosylab.gui.displayers
Interface AsynchronousStringConsumer

All Superinterfaces:

DataConsumer

All Known Implementing Classes:

FeedbackConsumerSupport

public interface AsynchronousStringConsumer
extends DataConsumer

NumericAsynchronousConsumer is consumer, which receives update request and returns some time later respons with detail information about request. Update method itself returns immediatelly.

This interface is intended to be used by DataSource. Displayer which want to notify data source about value changes done by user need to implement DataSource which supports this type of consumer.

This asynchronous consumer is specialized for consumers, which will use target value as Object.

Since:

Dec 3, 2003.

Version:

$Id: AsynchronousStringConsumer.java,v 1.3 2008-04-22 12:31:02 jbobnar Exp $

Author:

Igor Kriznar

See Also:

UpdateRequest.getTargetValue()

Method Summary

void	updateAcynchronously(UpdateRequest request) Calls asynchronous update on this data consumer.

Methods inherited from interface com.cosylab.gui.displayers.DataConsumer

getDataConsumer, getDefaultDataConsumer, getName, getSupportedCharacteristics, getSupportedConsumerTypes, setCharacteristics, updateDataState

Method Detail

updateAcynchronously

void updateAcynchronously(UpdateRequest request)
                          throws CommonException

Calls asynchronous update on this data consumer. Data consumer must return this call as soon as possible and inform UpdateRequestListener inside UpdateRequest about response.

Parameters:

request - the update request, holds UpdateRequestlistener which asynchronously receives reponse

Throws:

CommonException