Class IOPort<T>Abstract

Abstract class for a trigger. A trigger may be an action, port, or timer.

Type Parameters

  • T

Hierarchy (view full)

Constructors

Properties

_key: symbol = ...

A symbol that identifies this component, and it also used to selectively grant access to its privileged functions.

manager: IOPortManager<T> = ...

Inner class instance to let the container configure this port.

reactions: Set<Reaction<Variable[]>> = ...

Reactions to trigger.

receivers: Set<WritablePort<T>> = ...
runtime: Runtime
tag: undefined | Tag

The tag associated with this port's value, or undefined is there is none.

value: undefined | T

The current value associated with this port.

writer: (Anonymous class)<T> = ...

Inner class instance to gain access to Write interface.

pathSeparator: string = "."

Methods

  • Return a string that identifies this component. The name is a path constructed as [App]/[..]/[Container]/[This].

    Returns string

  • Return a string that identifies this component within its container. If no such string was found, return the name of the constructor.

    Returns string

  • Confirm whether or not this component is contained by the given reactor.

    Parameters

    • reactor: Reactor

      The presumptive container of this component.

    Returns boolean

  • Confirm whether or not this component is contained by the container of the given reactor.

    Parameters

    • reactor: Reactor

      The container presumptive container of the container of this component.

    Returns boolean

  • Report whether this component has been registered with its container or not. In principle, all components should have a container, but at the time of their construction there is a brief period where they are not. This is the only moment that a component is allowed register with its container.

    Returns boolean

  • Request the container to pass down its runtime object to this component. This function is to be called once and only once upon the construction of an object that subclasses Component. If it is called more than once a runtime error results.

    Returns void

  • Return the value set to this port. Return Absent if the connected output did not have its value set at the current logical time.

    Returns undefined | T

  • Parameters

    • key: undefined | symbol

    Returns IOPortManager<T>

  • Returns true if the connected port's value has been set; false otherwise

    Returns boolean

  • Returns a string representation of an object.

    Returns string

  • Given a component and its container (the global object if the component is an App), return the key of the entry that matches the component.

    Parameters

    • component: Component

      a component of which the object is assumed to be its container

    • object: object

      the assumed container of the component

    Returns string

    the key of the entry that matches the component

  • Given a port and its containing reactor, return the key of the entry that matches a multiport found in the reactor that matches the port.

    Parameters

    • port: Component

      a port that is assumed to be a constituent of a multiport declared on the given reactor

    • reactor: Reactor

      a reactor that is assumed to have a multiport of which one of the constituents is the given port

    Returns string

    an identifier for the port based on its location in a matching multiport