[SCXML] Entry Action

["Ouyang, Landon - ES/RDR -Gil" <La...@itt.com>]

I cannot find the documentation (I thought I had previously read) on this topic.

A state is executing an entry action, if an event (that causes a transition) is received, will the state machine take that transition?  Or does the entry action have to be completed before the state machine can process or take that transition?

Can anyone point me to that documentation?

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Landon Ouyang
Senior Design Engineer
ITT Electronics Systems, Radar Systems - Gilfillan
7821 Orion Ave,
Van Nuys, CA 91406
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Re: [SCXML] Entry Action

[Ingmar Kliche <in...@googlemail.com>]

Hi Landon,
the latter is the case. A state machine will process only one event at a
time. The specification [1] defines the concept of an internal and external
event queue.

Here is a (simplified) description of how an event gets processed: Assuming
the state machine has reached a certain state (or states) and finished
execution of <onentry>('s), it will wait for external events (for Apache
commons SCXML this means an event needs to be triggered using
SCXMLExecutor::triggerEvents()). Ones an external event arrives (i.e.
triggerEvents() is called), the state machine will process it (decide on
which <transistion>('s) to take, execute <onexit>('s), execute executable
content of the selected <transition>('s) and execute <onentry>'s). If
another external event arrives while the previous event is processed, it
needs to be queued (in other words put into the external event queue and
must not be triggered in parallel)!

If you use the Apache commons SCXML library in a multithreaded environment
it is important to make sure, that only one thread is executing an event at
any point in time (i.e. executing triggerEvents() method).

Does this help?

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/

2009/5/1 Ouyang, Landon - ES/RDR -Gil <La...@itt.com>

> I cannot find the documentation (I thought I had previously read) on this
> topic.
>
> A state is executing an entry action, if an event (that causes a
> transition) is received, will the state machine take that transition?  Or
> does the entry action have to be completed before the state machine can
> process or take that transition?
>
> Can anyone point me to that documentation?
>
> --
> Landon Ouyang
> Senior Design Engineer
> ITT Electronics Systems, Radar Systems - Gilfillan
> 7821 Orion Ave,
> Van Nuys, CA 91406
> (818) 901-2982
>
>
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