How it is possible to Pass agent as argument to another agent?
I know that we should pass arguments as an Object to createNewAgent
method But I don't know how to retrieve recently created agent which exists in agent controller.
/**
* create Three Collector agents
*/
private void _createCollectorAgent(AgentContainer agentContainer, AgentController[] controller, Map<String, String> agentNames, GUI gui) {
try {
Object[] arg = new Object[1];
arg[0] = gui;
for (int i = 0; i <= 2; i++) {
controller[i] = agentContainer.createNewAgent(agentNames.get(String.format("CollectorAgent%d", i)), CollectorAgent.class.getName(), arg);
controller[i].start();
}
} catch (StaleProxyException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private void _createSearcherAgent(AgentContainer agentContainer, AgentController[] controller, Map<String, String> agentNames, GUI gui) {
try {
List<AID> lstCollectors = new ArrayList<>(3);
lstCollectors.add( ?);//How get recently created agent inorder to pass in argument
lstCollectors.add( ?);
lstCollectors.add( ?);
Object[] args = new Object[2];
args[0] = gui;
args[1] = lstCollectors;
controller[3] = agentContainer.createNewAgent(agentNames.get("SearcherAgent"), SearcherAgent.class.getName(), args);
controller[3].start();
} catch (StaleProxyException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
And here is Searcher Agent which needs argument:
public class SearcherAgent extends Agent implements AgentEntity {
@Override
protected void setup() {
super.setup();
System.out.println("Setup of SearcherAgent called ");
GUI gui = (GUI) getArguments()[0];
AID[] lstCollectors= (AID[]) getArguments()[1];//Here is Ok
addBehaviour(new SearchingBehaviour(this, 1000,gui,lstCollectors));
}
}
It's not needed to pass Agent as argument because you can have access to other agents from any Agent class like this:
final AID[] otherAgents=
{
new AID("otherAgents0", AID.ISLOCALNAME),
new AID("otherAgents1", AID.ISLOCALNAME),
new AID("otherAgents2", AID.ISLOCALNAME),
...
};
This will give you the agents that are existing .The first argument is the agent's name given while creating them.