actor-id-hive
actor-id-string
- simple-dispatcher build-actions make-action-dispatch
- define-simple-actor
+ build-actions
- mhandlers
+ define-simple-actor
<hive>
make-hive
;;; Actor utilities
;;; ===============
-;;;;;;;;;;; Deprecated abstractions start here ;;;;;;;;;;;
-
-(define (simple-dispatcher action-map)
- (lambda (actor message)
- (let* ((action (message-action message))
- (method (assoc-ref action-map action)))
- (if (not method)
- ;; @@: There's every possibility this should be handled in
- ;; hive-process-message instead.
- (throw 'action-not-found
- "No appropriate action handler found for actor"
- #:action action
- #:actor actor
- #:message message
- #:available-actions (map car action-map)))
- (apply method actor message (message-body message)))))
-
-(define-syntax %expand-action-item
- (syntax-rules ()
- ((_ (action-name handler))
- (cons (quote action-name) handler))))
-
-(define-syntax-rule (build-actions action-item ...)
- "Build a mapping of actions. Same syntax as make-action-dispatch
-but this doesn't build the dispatcher for you (you probably want to
-pass it to simple-dispatcher).
-
-The advantage here is that since this simply builds an alist, you can
-compose it with other action maps."
- (list (%expand-action-item action-item) ...))
-
-(define-syntax make-action-dispatch
- (syntax-rules ()
- "Expand a list of action names and actions into an alist
-
-You can use this like the following:
- (make-action-dispatch
- (cookies
- (lambda (actor message)
- (display \"I love cookies!\n\")))
- (party
- (lambda (actor message)
- (display \"Life of the party!\"))))
-
-Alternately, if you'd like to skip the lambda, you could use the slightly
-more compact following syntax:
- (make-action-dispatch
- ((cookies actor message)
- (display \"I love cookies!\n\"))
- ((party actor message)
- (display \"Life of the party!\")))"
- ((make-action-dispatch action-item ...)
- (simple-dispatcher (build-actions action-item ...)))))
-
-;;;;;;;;;;; Deprecated abstractions end here ;;;;;;;;;;;
-
-
-(define-syntax-rule (mhandlers (symbol method) ...)
+(define-syntax-rule (build-actions (symbol method) ...)
"Construct an alist of (symbol . method), where the method is wrapped
with wrap-apply to facilitate live hacking and allow the method definition
to come after class definition."
(define-syntax-rule (define-simple-actor class action ...)
(define-class class (<actor>)
- (actions #:init-value (mhandlers action ...)
+ (actions #:init-value (build-actions action ...)
#:allocation #:each-subclass)))
\f
;; to send the message, then carry on their way
(prompt #:init-thunk make-prompt-tag
#:getter hive-prompt)
- (message-handler
- #:init-value
- (make-action-dispatch
- ;; This is in the case of an ambassador failing to forward a message...
- ;; it reports it back to the hive
- (*failed-forward* hive-handle-failed-forward))))
+ (actions #:allocation #:each-subclass
+ #:init-value
+ (build-actions
+ ;; This is in the case of an ambassador failing to forward a
+ ;; message... it reports it back to the hive
+ (*failed-forward* hive-handle-failed-forward))))
(define-method (hive-handle-failed-forward (hive <hive>) message)
"Handle an ambassador failing to forward a message"