brooklyn.event
Interface Sensor<T>

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

AttributeSensor<T>

public interface Sensor<T>
extends Serializable

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 Also:

SensorEvent

Method Summary

String	getDescription() Returns the description of the sensor, for display.
String	getName() Returns the name of the sensor, in a dot-separated namespace.
List<String>	getNameParts() Returns the constitient parts of the sensor name as a List.
Class<T>	getType() Returns the Java Class for the sensor data.
String	getTypeName() Returns the type of the sensor data, as a String representation of the class name.
SensorEvent<T>	newEvent(Entity entity, T value) Create a new SensorEvent object for a specific Entity and data point.

Method Detail

getType

Class<T> getType()

Returns the Java Class for the sensor data.

getTypeName

String getTypeName()

Returns the type of the sensor data, as a String representation of the class name.

getName

String getName()

Returns the name of the sensor, in a dot-separated namespace.

getNameParts

List<String> getNameParts()

Returns the constitient parts of the sensor name as a List.

getDescription

String getDescription()

Returns the description of the sensor, for display.

newEvent

SensorEvent<T> newEvent(Entity entity,
                        T value)

Create a new SensorEvent object for a specific Entity and data point.