com.ibm.streams.flow.declare

Interface OutputPortDeclaration

All Superinterfaces:

PortDeclaration<OutputPortDeclaration>, StreamingData

public interface OutputPortDeclaration
extends PortDeclaration<OutputPortDeclaration>

Declaration of output port for an OperatorInvocation.

Since:

InfoSphere® Streams Version 3.1

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface com.ibm.streams.operator.StreamingData

StreamingData.Punctuation

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
OutputPortDeclaration	connect(InputPortDeclaration... inputPorts) Connect this output port to input ports.
OutputPortSet	getPortSet() Return the port set for this port if the operator class had an OutputPortSet annotation.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.streams.flow.declare.PortDeclaration

getConnections, isConnected, operator

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.streams.operator.StreamingData

getName, getPEPortNumber, getPortNumber, getStreamSchema, isConnectedToPEPort

Method Detail

connect

OutputPortDeclaration connect(InputPortDeclaration... inputPorts)

Connect this output port to input ports.

Parameters:

inputPorts - Input ports to connect to.

Returns:

this

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - At least one of the input ports has a different schema.

getPortSet

OutputPortSet getPortSet()

Return the port set for this port if the operator class had an OutputPortSet annotation.

Returns:

Port set for this port, or null if the operator class was not annotated.

Since:

InfoSphere® Streams Version 3.2