rice.post.delivery
Interface DeliveryPast

All Superinterfaces:

GCPast, Past

All Known Implementing Classes:

DeliveryPastImpl

public interface DeliveryPast

extends GCPast

Interface which represents a POST-specific pending-delivery PAST storage.

Version:

$Id: DeliveryPast.java 2302 2005-03-11 00:58:26Z jeffh $

Author:

Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Peter Druschel

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface rice.p2p.past.gc.GCPast

INFINITY_EXPIRATION

Method Summary

void	getGroups(Continuation command) Returns the list of PostEntityaddress for which we are the primary replica responsible for delivering messages.
void	getMessage(PostEntityAddress address, Continuation command) Returns the first message which is still pending to the given address.
void	synchronize(Continuation command) Method which periodically checks to see if we've got receipts for any outstanding messages.

Methods inherited from interface rice.p2p.past.gc.GCPast

insert, insert, refresh, refresh

Methods inherited from interface rice.p2p.past.Past

fetch, getEnvironment, getInstance, getLocalNodeHandle, getReplicationFactor, lookup, lookup, lookupHandle, lookupHandles

Method Detail

synchronize

void synchronize(Continuation command)

Method which periodically checks to see if we've got receipts for any outstanding messages. If so, then we remove the outstanding message from our pending list.

getGroups

void getGroups(Continuation command)

Returns the list of PostEntityaddress for which we are the primary replica responsible for delivering messages.

Parameters:

command - The command to return the results to

getMessage

void getMessage(PostEntityAddress address,
                Continuation command)

Returns the first message which is still pending to the given address. If no such message exists, null is returned

Parameters:

address - The address for the message

command - The command to return the results to