edu.illinois.ncsa.isda.softwareserver.polyglot

Class Polyglot

java.lang.Object

edu.illinois.ncsa.isda.softwareserver.polyglot.Polyglot

Direct Known Subclasses:

PolyglotClient, PolyglotSteward, PolyglotStewardThreaded

public abstract class Polyglot
extends Object

An interface for file format conversion services that contain at its heart an I/O-Graph built around a set of Software Server clients.

Author:

Kenton McHenry

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Polyglot()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract void	close()
abstract void	convert(String input_filename, String output_path, String output_type)
void	convertLater(String input_filename, String output_path, String output_type) Convert a files format(asynchronously).
abstract IOGraph<String,String>	getDistributedInputOutputGraph()
abstract IOGraph<String,String>	getInputOutputGraph()
abstract TreeSet<String>	getOutputs()
abstract TreeSet<String>	getOutputs(String string)
abstract TreeSet<String>	getOutputs(TreeSet<String> set)
abstract Vector<String>	getServers()
void	waitOnPending() Wait for all pending asynchronous calls to complete.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Polyglot

public Polyglot()

Method Detail

getOutputs

public abstract TreeSet<String> getOutputs()

getOutputs

public abstract TreeSet<String> getOutputs(String string)

getOutputs

public abstract TreeSet<String> getOutputs(TreeSet<String> set)

getInputOutputGraph

public abstract IOGraph<String,String> getInputOutputGraph()

convert

public abstract void convert(String input_filename,
           String output_path,
           String output_type)

getServers

public abstract Vector<String> getServers()

getDistributedInputOutputGraph

public abstract IOGraph<String,String> getDistributedInputOutputGraph()

convertLater

public void convertLater(String input_filename,
                String output_path,
                String output_type)

Convert a files format(asynchronously).

Parameters:

input_filename - the absolute name of the input file

output_path - the output path

output_type - the name of the output type

waitOnPending

public void waitOnPending()

Wait for all pending asynchronous calls to complete.

close

public abstract void close()