uk.org.ogsadai.activity.examples
Class HelloWorldActivity

java.lang.Object
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public class HelloWorldActivity
extends Activity

A simple "HelloWorld"-style activity for that shows how to return a String.

For information on this activity see the OGSA-DAI user doc: OGSA-DAI/doc/interaction/activities/examples/helloWorldActivity.html

Author:
The OGSA-DAI Project Team

Field Summary
private static java.lang.String COPYRIGHT_NOTICE
          Copyright statement
private  BlockWriter mOutput
          Output stream for the activity.
 
Fields inherited from class uk.org.ogsadai.activity.Activity
mContext, mExternalInputs, mExternalOutputs, mInternalInputs, mInternalOutputs
 
Constructor Summary
HelloWorldActivity(org.w3c.dom.Element element)
           
 
Method Summary
 void initialise()
          This method should be overridden by subclasses to perform any initialisation they require before the process method invocations begin.
 void processBlock()
          Performs an iteration of the processing of an activity.
 
Methods inherited from class uk.org.ogsadai.activity.Activity
cleanUp, connectsTo, createOutputPipe, getActivityConfiguration, getActivityName, getCause, getName, getObservableStatus, getProperties, getSession, getStatus, hasActivityConfiguration, hasProperties, process, processFirst, setActivityName, setCompleted, setError
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

COPYRIGHT_NOTICE

private static final java.lang.String COPYRIGHT_NOTICE
Copyright statement

See Also:
Constant Field Values

mOutput

private BlockWriter mOutput
Output stream for the activity.

Constructor Detail

HelloWorldActivity

public HelloWorldActivity(org.w3c.dom.Element element)
                   throws ActivitySpecificationException,
                          ActivityCreationException
Method Detail

initialise

public void initialise()
                throws ActivitySpecificationException,
                       ActivityExecutionException
Description copied from class: Activity
This method should be overridden by subclasses to perform any initialisation they require before the process method invocations begin. This might be used for setting up convenient fields to reference objects contained in the context. It shouldn't be used for opening resources. That should be done in processFirst.

Overrides:
initialise in class Activity
Throws:
ActivityExecutionException - If some system problem prevents the activity from initialising.
ActivitySpecificationException - If a problem with settings provided by a client prevents the activity from initialising.

processBlock

public void processBlock()
Description copied from class: Activity
Performs an iteration of the processing of an activity. This may involve reading a block of input data and writing a block of output data, or may involve some other kind of processing. When an activity is processed by the OGSA-DAI engine, this method will be invoked repeatedly until the activity either completes or stops due to an error or termination call. An implementation of this method should invoke the setCompleted method to indicate that processing is complete, or the setError method if an error occurs that will prevent the processing from completing.

Specified by:
processBlock in class Activity
See Also:
Activity.processBlock()