ExternalActorHandler (adams-pom 24.7.0-SNAPSHOT API)

All Superinterfaces:

ExternalActorFileHandler

All Known Subinterfaces:

WeakExternalActor

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractExternalActor, ExternalSink, ExternalSource, ExternalStandalone, ExternalTransformer, WeakExternalStandalone
```
public interface ExternalActorHandler
extends ExternalActorFileHandler
```
Interface for actors that wrap an actor loaded from an external file.

Version:

$Revision: 9036 $

Author:

fracpete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`cleanUpExternalActor()`	Cleans up the external actor.
`Actor`	`getExternalActor()`	Returns the external actor.
`String`	`setUpExternalActor()`	Sets up the external actor.

Methods inherited from interface adams.flow.core.ExternalActorFileHandler
getActorFile, setActorFile

- Method Detail
  - setUpExternalActor
```
String setUpExternalActor()
```
    Sets up the external actor.
    
    Returns:
    
    null if everything is fine, otherwise error message
  - getExternalActor
```
Actor getExternalActor()
```
    Returns the external actor.
    
    Returns:
    
    the actor, null if not available
  - cleanUpExternalActor
```
void cleanUpExternalActor()
```
    Cleans up the external actor.