Class SharedQueue



    Purpose

    This class is designed for the purpose of server storing requests from all clients.

    To maintain the consistency of the whole system, the server should manipulate requests one at a time. But when there are many clients connecting to the server, one or more requests may arrive when the server is processing a request. Therefore, we designed a shared queue. The server has two shared queues. All map requests from any client are put into one queue; all action requests are put into the other.

    Functionality

    The server has two SharedQueues: one is for all the map requests, and the other is for all the action requests. When a request arrives, it will be put into the corresponding queue and be processed later in the first in first out manner.

    Structure

    The shared queue is built by using a Vector. When constructing a SharedQueue, the size and increment should be specified.

    SharedQueue has two methods: put and get. put is to put the specified object into the queue while get is to get this first object in the queue.

    See also

    MapReqReceiver
    MessageReceiver
    MapReqHandler
    ServerMsgHandler




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