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Version: 2.6

Loading Bay

##Introduction

The LoadingBay class provides the user with a useful structure for representing a loading docks (both inbound & outbound) with a transport queue that can hole TransportMessage messages and can be initialized with a capacity.

Users can add as many loading bays as they require to represent different types of docks, whether they be inbound docks, outbound docks, etc.

Loading Bay Class​

The LoadingBay class contains 3 fields:

int capacity;
Map<Long, TransportMessage> transportQueue;
Map<Integer, TransportMessage> loadingDocks;

The capacity parameter is used to initialize the size of the loadingDock creating a loadingDock Map of size capacity.

The 'transportQueue' can either be initialized as an empty Map or initialized with a starting set of TransportMessage messages for creating an initial state of the system.

A LoadingBay can be initialized using two constructors seen below:

new LoadingBay(int capacity)

new LoadingBay(int capacity, List<TransportMessage> initialTransportQueue)

When creating your LoadingBay classes in your Facility agent, custom logic can be implemented for how TransportMessage priority is handled. An example can be found in the sample code provided.