net.xqhs.util.logging

Interface ReportingEntity

public interface ReportingEntity

Interface for an entity / unit that keeps a log and that needs to report that log to other entities. Updates will be posted at regular intervals of time, and will be incremental (a new post will contain all logging information since the previous successful posting. The messages will contain timestamp, log name, level and content.

Author:

Andrei Olaru

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	report(java.lang.String content) The method will be called at intervals of reportUpdateDelay, if new logging information exist since the last call.

Method Detail

report

boolean report(java.lang.String content)

The method will be called at intervals of reportUpdateDelay, if new logging information exist since the last call.

Parameters:

content - - an update from the log containing the new logging information since the last call of this function.

Returns:

true if the reporting has completed correctly. Otherwise, the same information will be reported again at the next call.