From 074762e534ccb9623b6b67e5670644afb651aa7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:19:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added a pollUpdate method to kick the vamsas Document
 watcher thread when the application wants to be immediatly
 informed of a document update.

git-svn-id: https://svn.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/svn/repository/trunk@51 be28352e-c001-0410-b1a7-c7978e42abec
---
 src/org/vamsas/client/IClient.java      |   14 +++++++++++---
 src/org/vamsas/client/SimpleClient.java |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/org/vamsas/client/IClient.java b/src/org/vamsas/client/IClient.java
index 6c351e9..cebed2a 100644
--- a/src/org/vamsas/client/IClient.java
+++ b/src/org/vamsas/client/IClient.java
@@ -89,11 +89,19 @@ public interface IClient {
     public void storeDocument(java.io.File location);
     /**
      * Add a listener to a particular event chain.
-     * See org.vamsas.client.Events for allowed values for EventChain.
-     * The EventChain value is passed as the propertyName in the java.bean.PropertyChangeEvent
-     * TODO: build our own vamsas Event/Listener model.
+     * See org.vamsas.client.Events for allowed 
+     * values for EventChain.
+     * The EventChain value is passed as the 
+     * propertyName in the java.bean.PropertyChangeEvent
+     * TODO: extend class to form own vamsas Event/Listener model.
      * @param EventChain Name of event. Blank/null registers handler for all events.
      * @param evt - event handler function.
      */
     public void addVorbaEventHandler(String EventChain, PropertyChangeListener evt);
+    /**
+     * client application calls this to force the 
+     * Vorba client to check for updates immediately.
+     *
+     */
+    public void pollUpdate();
 }
diff --git a/src/org/vamsas/client/SimpleClient.java b/src/org/vamsas/client/SimpleClient.java
index 1f83b6f..4533295 100644
--- a/src/org/vamsas/client/SimpleClient.java
+++ b/src/org/vamsas/client/SimpleClient.java
@@ -298,6 +298,14 @@ public class SimpleClient implements IClient {
     }
   }
 
+  /* (non-Javadoc)
+   * @see org.vamsas.client.IClient#pollUpdate()
+   */
+  public void pollUpdate() {
+    // TODO wake up UpdateWatcher thread to check for updates.
+    
+  }
+
   public static void main(String[] args) {
   }
 }
-- 
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