kieker.monitoring.timer
Class AbstractTimeSource

java.lang.Object
  kieker.monitoring.timer.AbstractTimeSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

ITimeSource

Direct Known Subclasses:

SystemMilliTimer, SystemNanoTimer

public abstract class AbstractTimeSource
extends java.lang.Object
implements ITimeSource

Since:

1.3

Author:

Jan Waller

Constructor Summary

protected

AbstractTimeSource(Configuration configuration) This constructor initializes the class using the given configuration.

Method Summary

protected Configuration	getDefaultConfiguration() This method should be overwritten, iff the timer is external to Kieker and thus its default configuration is not included in the default config file.
abstract java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface kieker.monitoring.timer.ITimeSource

getOffset, getTime, getTimeUnit

Constructor Detail

AbstractTimeSource

protected AbstractTimeSource(Configuration configuration)

This constructor initializes the class using the given configuration.

Parameters:

configuration - The configuration for this time source.

Method Detail

getDefaultConfiguration

protected Configuration getDefaultConfiguration()

This method should be overwritten, iff the timer is external to Kieker and thus its default configuration is not included in the default config file.

Returns:

The configuration object containing the default configuration.

toString

public abstract java.lang.String toString()

Specified by:

toString in interface ITimeSource

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

A String representation of the timesource. E.g., the meaning of a timestamp from this source.