Event (AristaFlow Business Process Platform API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

FileEvent, LockFileEvent, MailEvent, MemoryResultSetEvent, ResultSetEvent

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEvent, FileEventImpl, LockFileEventImpl, MailEventImpl, MemoryResultSetEventImpl, ResultSetEventImpl
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public interface Event
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This interface represents an event source and event handler. An event can be identified uniquely. It need not be serialisable, but non-serialisable events can only be used locally, that is event source and event handler need to be executed in the very same JVM.

Author:

Ulrich Kreher, Marc Heinzelmann

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`long`	`getCreationTime()`	Gets the time (in milliseconds) this event has been created.
`URI[]`	`getEventManager()`	Gets the `URI` of the event manager of the event source that produced this event.
`String`	`getEventType()`	Gets the type of this event.
`long`	`getID()`	Gets the ID for this event that is set consecutively for all events of the same type produced by the same event source.
`String`	`getSourceID()`	Gets the ID of the source of this event.
`String`	`getSourceType()`	Gets the type of the source of this event.

- Method Detail
  - getID
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long getID()
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    Gets the ID for this event that is set consecutively for all events of the same type produced by the same event source.
    
    Returns:
    
    The ID for this event.
  - getEventManager
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URI[] getEventManager()
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    Gets the URI of the event manager of the event source that produced this event.
    
    Returns:
    
    The URI of the event manager of the event source that produced this event.
  - getEventType
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String getEventType()
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    Gets the type of this event.
    
    Returns:
    
    The type of this event.
  - getSourceType
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String getSourceType()
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    Gets the type of the source of this event.
    
    Returns:
    
    The type of the source of of this event.
  - getSourceID
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String getSourceID()
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    Gets the ID of the source of this event.
    
    Returns:
    
    The ID of the source of of this event.
  - getCreationTime
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long getCreationTime()
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    Gets the time (in milliseconds) this event has been created.
    
    Returns:
    
    The time (in milliseconds) this event has been created.
    
    See Also:
    
    System.currentTimeMillis()