com.sun.spot.peripheral.radio
Class HeaderInfoBase

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.spot.peripheral.radio.HeaderInfoBase

Direct Known Subclasses:

LowPanHeaderInfo

public class HeaderInfoBase
extends Object

HeaderInfoBase.java This class is to be extended according to the used mac layer. See for example the LowPanHeaderInfo. This class and also extending classes provide access to information that is stored in headers that are not existing any more after the decapsulation process that takes place in the low pan layer.

Author:

Jochen Furthmueller

Field Summary

long	destinationAddress
long	sourceAddress

Constructor Summary

HeaderInfoBase(long dest, long src)
creates a new instance of the class HeaderInfoBase

Method Summary

String	getProperty(String key) Gives access to properties of headers that have been stripped away during processing of the packet.
void	setDestinationAddress(long addr) Set the destination address of this header info.
void	setSourceAddress(long addr)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

destinationAddress

public long destinationAddress

sourceAddress

public long sourceAddress

Constructor Detail

HeaderInfoBase

public HeaderInfoBase(long dest,
                      long src)

creates a new instance of the class HeaderInfoBase

Method Detail

setDestinationAddress

public void setDestinationAddress(long addr)

Set the destination address of this header info. This is used for spotgrams that are supposed to be sent on a server connection.

setSourceAddress

public void setSourceAddress(long addr)

getProperty

public String getProperty(String key)

Gives access to properties of headers that have been stripped away during processing of the packet. This method should be overwritten by extending classes, according to their header fields.

Returns:

property string representation of the property that was asked for