Class ConsumerChoicePointFrame

All Implemented Interfaces:
LPAgendaEntry, LPInterpreterState

public class ConsumerChoicePointFrame extends GenericTripleMatchFrame implements LPAgendaEntry, LPInterpreterState
Frame in the LPInterpreter's control stack used to represent matching to the results of a tabled predicate. Conventionally the system state which finds and tables the goal results is called the generator and states which require those results are called consumers.

This is used in the inner loop of the interpreter and so is a pure data structure not an abstract data type and assumes privileged access to the interpreter state.

  • Constructor Details

    • ConsumerChoicePointFrame

      public ConsumerChoicePointFrame(LPInterpreter interpreter)
      Constructor.
      Parameters:
      interpreter - the parent interpreter whose state is to be preserved here, its arg stack defines the parameters for the target goal
  • Method Details

    • init

      public void init(LPInterpreter interpreter)
      Initialize the choice point state.
      Overrides:
      init in class GenericTripleMatchFrame
      Parameters:
      interpreter - the parent interpreter whose state is to be preserved here, its arg stack defines the parameters for the target goal
    • preserveState

      public void preserveState(List<Node> trail)
      Preserve the state of an interpreter into this frame.
    • restoreState

      public void restoreState(LPInterpreter interp)
      Restore the state of an interpreter from this frame
    • nextMatch

      public StateFlag nextMatch(LPInterpreter interpreter)
      Find the next result triple and bind the result vars appropriately.
      Parameters:
      interpreter - the calling interpreter whose trail should be used
      Returns:
      FAIL if there are no more matches and the generator is closed, SUSPEND if there are no more matches but the generator could generate more, SATISFIED if a match has been found.
    • isReady

      public boolean isReady()
      Return true if this choice point could usefully be restarted.
      Specified by:
      isReady in interface LPAgendaEntry
    • setReady

      public void setReady()
      Called by generator when there are more results available.
    • close

      public void close()
      Description copied from class: FrameObject
      Close the frame actively. This frees any internal resources, frees this frame and frees the frame to which this is linked.
      Overrides:
      close in class FrameObject
    • setFinished

      public void setFinished()
      Notify that this consumer choice point has finished consuming all the results of a closed generator.
    • pump

      public void pump()
      Reactivate this choice point to return new results.
      Specified by:
      pump in interface LPAgendaEntry
    • getGenerator

      public Generator getGenerator()
      Return the generator associated with this entry (might be the entry itself)
      Specified by:
      getGenerator in interface LPAgendaEntry
    • getConsumingContext

      public LPInterpreterContext getConsumingContext()
      Return the interpeter context which is reading the results of this consumer.