Handles

A handle is a correpondence hierarchy used for accessing filtered pulse nodes. More...

Classes
class	fsf::CPassiveHandle
	The passive handle class. More...
class	fsf::CActiveHandle
	The active handle class. More...

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Detailed Description

A handle is a correpondence hierarchy used for accessing filtered pulse nodes.

Two sets of classes are implemented, for active and passive handles respectively. Active handle simply provide a pointer to a node in an active pulse. An optional handle ID, inherited during the filtering operation, allows to identify the node with respect to the filter. Passive handles play the additional role of locks for node deletion and garbage collecting (not required in active pulses). When a cell removes a node, it does not destroy it, but marks it as deleted, so it is not used in subsequent filtering operations. The cell must notify the repository, which in turns notify all connected cells to re-filter the passive pulse, and initiates a garbage collecting process, which will physically deleted the node when is it free of handles from ongoing process.