sandy.game.core
Class Player

java.lang.Object
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Direct Known Subclasses:

ComputerPlayer, HumanPlayer

public abstract class Player

extends java.lang.Object

This is the base class for players in the game. The players in the game are queried by the game engine for their next moves till the game is over. Now, a player can be either Human or Computer. A human player generally interacts with a user interface to input his moves and the computer relies on a decision engine to generate its next best move. To implement this concept generically, this class implements a publisher-subscriber model to return the next move. In case a move is not set the call to getMove waits till a move is set.

Field Summary

protected GameBoard	gameBoard
protected int	perspective

Constructor Summary

protected

Player(GameBoard gameBoard, int perspective)

Method Summary

protected void	generateNextMove() This function should be overridden by sub classes who want to do the processing in the same thread..
Move	getMove() Gets the next move for this player.
void	setNextMove(Move move) Set the next best move for this player.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

gameBoard

protected GameBoard gameBoard

perspective

protected int perspective

Constructor Detail

Player

protected Player(GameBoard gameBoard,
                 int perspective)

Method Detail

getMove

public Move getMove()

Gets the next move for this player.

setNextMove

public void setNextMove(Move move)

Set the next best move for this player. This function is generally called either by the ui (In case of a human player) and by the decision engine in case of a computer player.

generateNextMove

protected void generateNextMove()

This function should be overridden by sub classes who want to do the processing in the same thread.. like the computer player. This method should call the setNextMove to set the processed move.