jmri.jmrix.maple
Class SerialMessage

java.lang.Object
  jmri.jmrix.AbstractMessage
      jmri.jmrix.AbstractMRMessage
          jmri.jmrix.maple.SerialMessage

All Implemented Interfaces:

Message

public class SerialMessage
extends AbstractMRMessage

Contains the data payload of a serial packet.

Note that only the payload, not the header or trailer, nor the padding DLE characters are included. These are added during transmission.

Author:

Bob Jacobsen Copyright (C) 2001,2003

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class jmri.jmrix.AbstractMRMessage

LONG_TIMEOUT, SHORT_TIMEOUT

Fields inherited from class jmri.jmrix.AbstractMessage

_dataChars, _nDataChars

Constructor Summary

SerialMessage()

SerialMessage(byte[] a)
This ctor interprets the byte array as a sequence of characters to send.

SerialMessage(int i)

SerialMessage(SerialMessage m)

SerialMessage(String m)
This ctor interprets the String as the exact sequence to send, byte-for-byte.

Method Summary

int	getAddress()
int	getNumItems()
static SerialMessage	getPoll(int UA, int startAdd, int count)
int	getUA()
boolean	isInit()
boolean	isPoll()
boolean	isXmt()
boolean	replyExpected() Is a reply expected to this message?
protected void	setNoReply()
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class jmri.jmrix.AbstractMRMessage

addIntAsFourHex, addIntAsThree, addIntAsThreeHex, addIntAsTwoHex, getNeededMode, getOpCode, getOpCodeHex, getRetries, getTimeout, isBinary, setBinary, setNeededMode, setOpCode, setRetries, setTimeout

Methods inherited from class jmri.jmrix.AbstractMessage

getElement, getNumDataElements, setElement

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SerialMessage

public SerialMessage()

SerialMessage

public SerialMessage(int i)

SerialMessage

public SerialMessage(SerialMessage m)

SerialMessage

public SerialMessage(String m)

This ctor interprets the String as the exact sequence to send, byte-for-byte.

Parameters:

m -

SerialMessage

public SerialMessage(byte[] a)

This ctor interprets the byte array as a sequence of characters to send.

Parameters:

a - Array of bytes to send

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Specified by:

toString in interface Message

Overrides:

toString in class AbstractMRMessage

setNoReply

protected void setNoReply()

replyExpected

public boolean replyExpected()

Description copied from class: AbstractMRMessage

Is a reply expected to this message?

By default, a reply is expected to every message; either a reply or a timeout is needed before the next message can be sent.

If this returns false, the transmit queue will immediately go on to transmitt the next message (if any).

Overrides:

replyExpected in class AbstractMRMessage

isPoll

public boolean isPoll()

isXmt

public boolean isXmt()

isInit

public boolean isInit()

getUA

public int getUA()

getAddress

public int getAddress()

getNumItems

public int getNumItems()

getPoll

public static SerialMessage getPoll(int UA,
                                    int startAdd,
                                    int count)