net.sourceforge.pavlov.user
Class AbstractStrategy

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.pavlov.user.AbstractStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

ActionListener, EventListener, Pluglet

Direct Known Subclasses:

BasicStrategy

public abstract class AbstractStrategy
extends Object
implements Pluglet

AbstractStrategy is the base class for a question selection strategy.

Field Summary

protected Collection<QuestionData>	questions List of questions to choose from.
protected ResourceBroker	rb

Constructor Summary

AbstractStrategy()
Creates a new AbstractStrategy instance with no QuestionData to work on.

AbstractStrategy(Collection<QuestionData> questions)
Creates a new AbstractStrategy instance to draw from the given Questions.

Method Summary

void	actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) Describe actionPerformed method here.
String	getName() Returns a short descriptive name for this strategy.
abstract QuestionData	getQuestion(Vector<QuestionData> exclusion) Returns the next question using the implemented strategy.
void	setQuestions(Collection<QuestionData> questions) Set the collection of questions to draw from.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface net.sourceforge.pavlov.pluglets.Pluglet

getDescription

Field Detail

questions

protected Collection<QuestionData> questions

List of questions to choose from.

rb

protected ResourceBroker rb

Constructor Detail

AbstractStrategy

public AbstractStrategy()

Creates a new AbstractStrategy instance with no QuestionData to work on.

AbstractStrategy

public AbstractStrategy(Collection<QuestionData> questions)

Creates a new AbstractStrategy instance to draw from the given Questions.

Method Detail

setQuestions

public void setQuestions(Collection<QuestionData> questions)

Set the collection of questions to draw from.

getName

public String getName()

Returns a short descriptive name for this strategy. Override this method to name your strategy.

Specified by:

getName in interface Pluglet

Returns:

a String value

getQuestion

public abstract QuestionData getQuestion(Vector<QuestionData> exclusion)

Returns the next question using the implemented strategy.

Returns:

a QuestionData value

actionPerformed

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)

Describe actionPerformed method here.

Specified by:

actionPerformed in interface ActionListener

Parameters:

e - an ActionEvent value