rails.game
Class PlayerManager

java.lang.Object
  rails.game.PlayerManager

All Implemented Interfaces:

ConfigurableComponentI

public class PlayerManager
extends java.lang.Object
implements ConfigurableComponentI

Field Summary

int	maxPlayers
int	minPlayers

Constructor Summary

PlayerManager()

Method Summary

void	configureFromXML(Tag tag) Instructs the component to configure itself from the provided XML element.
void	finishConfiguration(GameManagerI gameManager) This method is intended to be called for each configurable component, to perforn any initialisation activities that require any other components to be initialised first.
int	getInitialPlayerCertificateLimit() Only to be called at initialisation time.
Player	getPlayerByName(java.lang.String name)
java.util.List<java.lang.String>	getPlayerNames()
java.util.List<Player>	getPlayers()
protected int	getStartCash()
void	setPlayers(java.util.List<java.lang.String> playerNames, Bank bank)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

maxPlayers

public int maxPlayers

minPlayers

public int minPlayers

Constructor Detail

PlayerManager

public PlayerManager()

Method Detail

configureFromXML

public void configureFromXML(Tag tag)
                      throws ConfigurationException

Description copied from interface: ConfigurableComponentI

Instructs the component to configure itself from the provided XML element.

Specified by:

configureFromXML in interface ConfigurableComponentI

Throws:

ConfigurationException

finishConfiguration

public void finishConfiguration(GameManagerI gameManager)

Description copied from interface: ConfigurableComponentI

This method is intended to be called for each configurable component, to perforn any initialisation activities that require any other components to be initialised first. This includes creating any required relationships to other configured components and objects.

This method should be called where necessary after all XML file parsing has completed, so that all objects that need to be related to do exist.

Specified by:

finishConfiguration in interface ConfigurableComponentI

Parameters:

gameManager - The 'parent' configurable component is passed to allow the 'child' to access any other object without the need to resort to static calls where possible.

setPlayers

public void setPlayers(java.util.List<java.lang.String> playerNames,
                       Bank bank)

getPlayers

public java.util.List<Player> getPlayers()

Returns:

Returns an array of all players.

getPlayerByName

public Player getPlayerByName(java.lang.String name)

getPlayerNames

public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getPlayerNames()

getStartCash

protected int getStartCash()

getInitialPlayerCertificateLimit

public int getInitialPlayerCertificateLimit()

Only to be called at initialisation time. Does not reflect later changes to this limit.