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      1 /**
      2  * Copyright (C) 2011 The Android Open Source Project
      3  *
      4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
      5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
      7  *
      8  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
      9  *
     10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
     11  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
     12  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
     13  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
     14  * limitations under the License.
     15  */
     16 
     17 package com.android.internal.util;
     18 
     19 import android.os.Message;
     20 
     21 /**
     22  * {@hide}
     23  *
     24  * The interface for implementing states in a {@link StateMachine}
     25  */
     26 public interface IState {
     27 
     28     /**
     29      * Returned by processMessage to indicate the the message was processed.
     30      */
     31     static final boolean HANDLED = true;
     32 
     33     /**
     34      * Returned by processMessage to indicate the the message was NOT processed.
     35      */
     36     static final boolean NOT_HANDLED = false;
     37 
     38     /**
     39      * Called when a state is entered.
     40      */
     41     void enter();
     42 
     43     /**
     44      * Called when a state is exited.
     45      */
     46     void exit();
     47 
     48     /**
     49      * Called when a message is to be processed by the
     50      * state machine.
     51      *
     52      * This routine is never reentered thus no synchronization
     53      * is needed as only one processMessage method will ever be
     54      * executing within a state machine at any given time. This
     55      * does mean that processing by this routine must be completed
     56      * as expeditiously as possible as no subsequent messages will
     57      * be processed until this routine returns.
     58      *
     59      * @param msg to process
     60      * @return HANDLED if processing has completed and NOT_HANDLED
     61      *         if the message wasn't processed.
     62      */
     63     boolean processMessage(Message msg);
     64 
     65     /**
     66      * Name of State for debugging purposes.
     67      *
     68      * @return name of state.
     69      */
     70     String getName();
     71 }
     72