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// GPars - Groovy Parallel Systems
//
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package groovyx.gpars.dataflow.operator;

import groovy.lang.Closure;
import groovyx.gpars.group.PGroup;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Dataflow selectors and operators (processors) form the basic units in dataflow networks. They are typically combined into oriented graphs that transform data.
 * They accept a set of input and output dataflow channels so that once values are available to be consumed in any
 * of the input channels the selector's body is triggered on the values, potentially generating values to be written into the output channels.
 * The output channels at the same time are suitable to be used as input channels by some other dataflow processors.
 * The channels allow processors to communicate.
 * 
 * Dataflow selectors and operators enable creation of highly concurrent applications yet the abstraction hides the low-level concurrency primitives
 * and exposes much friendlier API.
 * Since selectors and operators internally leverage the actor implementation, they reuse a pool of threads and so the actual number of threads
 * used by the calculation can be kept much lower than the actual number of processors used in the network.
 * 
 * Priority selectors prefer to select messages from channels with lower position index.
 *
 * @author Vaclav Pech
 *         Date: Sep 23, 2009
 */
public final class DataflowPrioritySelector extends DataflowSelector {

    /**
     * Creates a priority selector
     * After creation the selector needs to be started using the start() method.
     *
     * @param group    A parallel group to use threads from in the internal actor
     * @param channels A map specifying "inputs" and "outputs" - dataflow channels (instances of the DataflowQueue or DataflowVariable classes) to use for inputs and outputs
     * @param code     The selector's body to run each time all inputs have a value to read
     */
    public DataflowPrioritySelector(final PGroup group, final Map channels, final Closure code) {
        super(group, channels, code);
    }

    /**
     * Ask for another select operation on the internal select instance.
     * The selector's guards are applied to the selection.
     */
    @Override
    public void doSelect() {
        try {
            select.prioritySelect(this.actor, guards);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Couldn't not select a value due to an exception.", e);
        }
    }
}