li.cil.oc.api.network

Interface ManagedPeripheral

public interface ManagedPeripheral

This interface can be used with an Environment and is intended to be used for environments wrapping a ComputerCraft peripheral. Tt could be used for other purposes as well, though. It allows providing method names in addition to those defined via the Callback annotation, and invoking said methods.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.Object[]	invoke(java.lang.String method, Context context, Arguments args) Calls a method from the list provided by methods().
java.lang.String[]	methods() Get the list of methods provided by this environment, in addition to methods marked as callbacks.

Method Detail

methods

java.lang.String[] methods()

Get the list of methods provided by this environment, in addition to methods marked as callbacks.

Returning null has the same meaning as returning an empty array, that being that there are no methods - in which case you don't need this interface!

Returns:

the list of methods provided by the environment.

invoke

java.lang.Object[] invoke(java.lang.String method,
                        Context context,
                        Arguments args)
                          throws java.lang.Exception

Calls a method from the list provided by methods().

Parameters:

method - the name of the method to call.

context - the context from which the method is called.

args - the arguments to pass to the method.

Returns:

the result of calling the method. Same as for callbacks.

Throws:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodException - if there is no method with the specified name.

java.lang.Exception