externalInitialisable

An interface to be implemented by any Ability that needs to initialise the resources it uses, e.g. establish a database connection.

The Initialisable.initialise method is invoked whenever Actor.attemptsTo method is called, but only when Initialisable.isInitialised returns false. This is to avoid initialising abilities more than once.

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• Ability
• AbilityType
• Discardable

Index

Methods

• initialise
• isInitialised

Methods

externalinitialise

• initialise(): void | Promise<void>

• Initialises the ability. Invoked whenever Actor.attemptsTo method is called, but only when Initialisable.isInitialised returns false.

  Make sure to implement Initialisable.isInitialised so that it returns true when the ability has been successfully initialised.

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  Returns void | Promise<void>

externalisInitialised

• isInitialised(): boolean

• Should return true when all the resources that the given ability needs have been initialised. Should return false if the Actor should initialise them again when Actor.attemptsTo is called.

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  Returns boolean