InternetSender

An Internet connection to send attribute values of an object through a TCP or UDP protocol. Every call to notify (for example, Agent:notify()) in the target activates the InternetSender.

Arguments

• compress: Compress the data to be transfered? It might be interesting not to compress when the connection is on the localhost, or when there is a very fast connection, to make the simulation faster. The default value is true.
• host: A string with the host name to transfer the data. The default value is "localhost".
• port: A number greater or equal to 50000 indicating the port of the host to transfer the data. The default value is 456456.
• protocol: A string with the protocol to be used. It can be "tcp" (default) or "udp".
• select: A vector of strings with the name of the attributes to be observed. If it is a single value then it can also be described as a string. As default, it selects all the user-defined attributes of an object. When using a CellularSpace as subject, the values in select are related to its Cells and this argument is mandatory. In the case of Society, if it does not have any numeric attributes then it will use the number of agents in the Society as attribute.
• target: An Agent, Cell, CellularSpace, or Society.
• visible: A boolean value indicating whether InternetSender will create a window to display the transferred data. The default value is true.

Usage

cell = Cell{
    value = 5
}

InternetSender{
    target = cell,
    select = "value",
    protocol = "tcp",
    compress = false
}