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| package org.apache.brooklyn.api.sensor; |
| |
| import java.io.Serializable; |
| import java.util.List; |
| |
| import org.apache.brooklyn.api.entity.Entity; |
| |
| import com.google.common.reflect.TypeToken; |
| |
| /** |
| * The interface implemented by concrete sensors. |
| * |
| * A sensor is a container for a piece of data of a particular type, and exists in a hierarchical namespace. |
| * The name of the sensor is described as a set of tokens separated by dots. |
| * |
| * @see SensorEvent |
| */ |
| public interface Sensor<T> extends Serializable { |
| /** |
| * Returns the Java {@link Class} for the sensor data. |
| * <p> |
| * This returns a "super" of T only in the case where T is generified, |
| * and in such cases it returns the Class instance for the unadorned T --- |
| * i.e. for List<String> this returns Class<List> --- |
| * this is of course because there is no actual Class<List<String>> instance. |
| */ |
| Class<? super T> getType(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the Guava TypeToken (including generics info) |
| */ |
| TypeToken<T> getTypeToken(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the type of the sensor data, as a {@link String} representation of the class name. |
| * (Useful for contexts where Type is not accessible.) |
| */ |
| String getTypeName(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the name of the sensor, in a dot-separated namespace. |
| */ |
| String getName(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the constituent parts of the sensor name as a {@link List}. |
| */ |
| List<String> getNameParts(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the description of the sensor, for display. |
| */ |
| String getDescription(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Create a new {@link SensorEvent} object for a specific {@link Entity} and data point. |
| */ |
| SensorEvent<T> newEvent(Entity entity, T value); |
| } |