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Defines an interface and generic functionality of a mental state, independent from a specific KR language that is used to represent the content of a mental state.

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/**
 * The GOAL Mental State. Copyright (C) 2014 Koen Hindriks.
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 * the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
 * Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
 * version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
 * details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
 * this program. If not, see .
 */

package mentalState;

/**
 * 
 * Different (data)base types that are used in GOAL.
 * 
 * 
 * These types are useful for differentiating databases in the KR layer.
 * 
 */
public enum BASETYPE {
	/**
	 * A knowledge base. Note that GOAL does not explicitly store the knowledge base
	 * of an agent, but only a list of formulae in the KB, present in the agent's
	 * AgentProgram. This value is mostly there so that the DatabasePanel can
	 * identify that it contains information of the knowledge base.
	 */
	KNOWLEDGEBASE("knowledgebase"),
	/**
	 * database storing data from the belief section, and insert()'ed objects. There
	 * is only 1 beliefbase for an agent. Beliefbase automatically inherits the
	 * Knowledge base.
	 */
	BELIEFBASE("beliefbase"),
	/**
	 * database storing a single goal, either a single line from a goal section or
	 * from single adopt() actions. Goal bases automatically inherit the knowledge
	 * base; Note that this feature is implemented by the KR layer.
	 */
	GOALBASE("goalbase"),
	/**
	 * Database storing messages.
	 */
	MESSAGEBASE("messagebase"),
	/**
	 * Database storing percepts.
	 */
	PERCEPTBASE("perceptbase");

	/**
	 * The proper string-representation of this {@link BASETYPE}.
	 */
	private String displayName;
	/**
	 * Cache
	 */
	public static BASETYPE[] values = values();

	private BASETYPE(String displayName) {
		this.displayName = displayName;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return this.displayName;
	}
}