[kepler-dev] BinaryFileReader in PN workflows

[Edward A. Lee]

Returning false from postfire() will stop execution of an actor
with any (correctly implemented) director.  This actor seems to be
designed to read only one file...

Edward

At 09:17 PM 2/16/2006, Tristan King wrote:
>It seems like the current implementation of the BinaryFileReader is
>unable to take in a sequence of inputs to allow it to read multiple
>files.
>
>I believe this is because the postfire() method returns false when it
>has reached the end of the file, which I think (i'm not sure exactly
>what happenes so please correct me if i'm wrong) tells the PN director
>to stop iterating the actor and thus preventing the next file in the
>sequence from being read.
>
>I'm not sure if this problem is isolated to PN directed workflows, but
>it's what i'm using so i thought i'd specify it.
>
>Thanks
>--Tristan
>
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