teetime.stage.taskfarm

Interface ITaskFarmDuplicable<I,O>

Type Parameters:

I - Input type of the task farm

O - Output Type of the task farm

All Superinterfaces:

ITransformation<I,O>

All Known Implementing Classes:

Counter, MD5Stage, WordCounter

public interface ITaskFarmDuplicable<I,O>
extends ITransformation<I,O>

Any AbstractStage or CompositeStage implementing this interface can be used by a Task Farm as an enclosed stage. The enclosed stage may not have more than one input or output port each.

Author:

Christian Claus Wiechmann

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ITaskFarmDuplicable<I,O>	duplicate() Creates a new instance of the enclosed stage.
InputPort<I>	getInputPort()
OutputPort<O>	getOutputPort()

Method Detail

duplicate

ITaskFarmDuplicable<I,O> duplicate()

Creates a new instance of the enclosed stage.

Returns:

new instance

getInputPort

InputPort<I> getInputPort()

Specified by:

getInputPort in interface ITransformation<I,O>

Returns:

single input port of the enclosed stage

getOutputPort

OutputPort<O> getOutputPort()

Specified by:

getOutputPort in interface ITransformation<I,O>

Returns:

single output port of the enclosed stage