edu.cuny.cat.market.accepting
Class ShoutAcceptingPolicy

java.lang.Object
  edu.cuny.cat.market.AuctioneerPolicy
      edu.cuny.cat.market.accepting.ShoutAcceptingPolicy

All Implemented Interfaces:

AuctionEventListener, edu.cuny.config.param.Parameterizable, edu.cuny.obj.Resetable

Direct Known Subclasses:

CombiAcceptingPolicy, OnlyNewShoutDecidingAcceptingPolicy, SelfBeatingAcceptingPolicy

public abstract class ShoutAcceptingPolicy
extends AuctioneerPolicy

A shout-accepting policy determines whether a shout should be accepted or not.

Default Base

accepting

Version:

$Revision: 1.16 $

Author:

Jinzhong Niu

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

P_DEF_BASE

Fields inherited from class edu.cuny.cat.market.AuctioneerPolicy

auctioneer

Constructor Summary

ShoutAcceptingPolicy()

Method Summary

abstract void

check(Shout oldShout, Shout newShout) checks whether newShout is acceptable or not to replace oldShout.

Methods inherited from class edu.cuny.cat.market.AuctioneerPolicy

eventOccurred, getAuctioneer, initialize, reset, setAuctioneer, setup, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

P_DEF_BASE

public static final java.lang.String P_DEF_BASE

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

ShoutAcceptingPolicy

public ShoutAcceptingPolicy()

Method Detail

check

public abstract void check(Shout oldShout,
                           Shout newShout)
                    throws IllegalShoutException

checks whether newShout is acceptable or not to replace oldShout. If not, an IllegalShoutException is thrown.

Parameters:

oldShout - the shout to be replaced; if null, no shout is replaced.

newShout - the new shout to replace the old one

Throws:

IllegalShoutException