CSP for Java
(JCSP) 1.1-rc4

org.jcsp.plugNplay
Class BlackHole

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.jcsp.plugNplay.BlackHole
All Implemented Interfaces:
CSProcess

public final class BlackHole
extends Object
implements CSProcess

Black holes anything sent to it.

Process Diagram

Description

BlackHole is a process that accepts everything sent to it. This class can be used to ignore the output from a process while ensuring that the data is always read from the channel.

Note: this functionality is (more efficiently) provided by a BlackHoleChannel.

Channel Protocols

Input Channels
in java.lang.Object The in Channel can accept data of any Class.

Author:
P.H. Welch and P.D. Austin

Constructor Summary
BlackHole(ChannelInput in)
          Construct a new BlackHole process with the input Channel in.
 
Method Summary
 void run()
          The main body of this process.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

BlackHole

public BlackHole(ChannelInput in)
Construct a new BlackHole process with the input Channel in.

Parameters:
in - the input channel
Method Detail

run

public void run()
The main body of this process.

Specified by:
run in interface CSProcess

CSP for Java
(JCSP) 1.1-rc4

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Version 1.1-rc4 of the JCSP API Specification (Copyright 1997-2008 P.D.Austin and P.H.Welch - All Rights Reserved)
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