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The driver API for engineblock; Provides the interfaces needed to build drivers that can be loaded by engineblock core

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package io.engineblock.activityapi;

/**
 * A continuing action can ask to be iterated within the cycle.
 * 
 * Motors must:
 * 

 * Detect when an action is a multi-phase action at initialization time, not in the inner loop
 * Call accept(cycle) as normal.
 * If the action is a multi-phase action, keep calling accept(cycle), with the same cycle number as above,
 * until incomplete returns false.
 * 
 */
public interface MultiPhaseAction extends Action {

    /**
     * Signal to the caller whether or not the current multi-phase is completed.
     *
     * @return true when completed.
     */
    boolean incomplete();
}