"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

Signal subclass:#QuerySignal

	instanceVariableNames:''

	classVariableNames:''

	poolDictionaries:''

	category:'Kernel-Exceptions'

!

!QuerySignal class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"

    QuerySignals are like signals, except that they are not accepted

    by handlers for ordinary signals.

    I.e. a signal handler for a normal signal will not handle a query

    signal. Thus, these bypass anySignal handlers.

    If unhandled, no error is raised, instead they are simply ignored

    (as opposed to normal signals, which raise an unhandled signal exception).

    Their main use is to implement up-Queries via signals even if intermediate

    errorSignal handlers are present (which is not possible with ordinary signals).

    Code deep down in the calling hierarchy can post such an up-Query to ask

    for some information in return or to pass some information upward. 

    For example, the activityNotification mechanism is built on top of this:

    everyone can send such a notification which is either handled by someone

    up in the hierarchy (to show it in the windows info area) or simply

    ignored.

    Using QuerySignals for this (instead of regular Signals) helps in documenting

    the intended usage of those signals.

"

!

examples 

"

    an up-query from a deeply nested operation to a higher level:

	|querySignal zero|

	zero := 0.

	querySignal := QuerySignal new.

	querySignal handle:[:ex |

	    ex proceedWith:true

	] do:[

	    'nexting'.

	    [

		[

		    Object errorSignal handle:[:ex |

			ex proceed

		    ] do:[

			[

			    1 // zero.  'a cought error'.

			    (querySignal raise) ifTrue:[

				Transcript showCr:'query says: ok'.

			     ] ifFalse:[

				Transcript showCr:'query says: no'

			     ]

			] value

		    ]

		] value

	    ] value

	]

"

! !

!QuerySignal methodsFor:'queries'!

accepts:aSignal

    "return true, if the receiver accepts the argument, aSignal.

     (i.e. the receiver is aSignal or a parent of it). False otherwise."

    |s|

    aSignal isQuerySignal ifFalse:[^ false].

    s := aSignal.

    [s notNil] whileTrue:[

	self == s ifTrue:[^ true].

	s := s parent

    ].

    ^ false

!

isQuerySignal

    "return true, if this is a querySignal - always return true here"

    ^ true

    "Modified: 22.4.1996 / 13:45:10 / cg"

! !

!QuerySignal class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

! !