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Interface grendel.view.ViewedMessage

This is a message in a MessageSetView. It represents a message, and also knows where it is in relationship with other messages in the same view.

public interface  ViewedMessage
{
          // Methods 7
     public abstract void dump();
     public abstract ViewedMessage getChild();
     public abstract Message getMessage();
     public abstract ViewedMessage getNext();
     public abstract ViewedMessage getParent();
     public abstract MessageSetView getView();
     public abstract boolean isDummy();
}

• getView

   public abstract MessageSetView getView() 

Gets the view that this message is a part of.

• getMessage

   public abstract Message getMessage() 

Gets the message itself. You need to go through this to find out stuff about the message (like its subject, author, etc.).

• getParent

   public abstract ViewedMessage getParent() 

Returns the parent of this message. (This is always null unless threading is turned on in the view.)

• getChild

   public abstract ViewedMessage getChild() 

Returns the first child of this message. (This is always null unless threading is turned on in the view.)

• getNext

   public abstract ViewedMessage getNext() 

Returns the next message. This is the next message that has the same parent as this message.

• isDummy

   public abstract boolean isDummy() 

This should return true of dummy messages, false otherwise. It is legal to pass dummy messages in with the list returned by elements(); the isDummy() method is the mechanism by which they are noted and ignored.

• dump

   public abstract void dump() 

Debugging hack. Dumps this message (and messages in its tree) out to System.out.

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