Querying an event class

Events arrive at an entity in a call to the entity's Time handleEvents(EventList el, Time t) method. The event list is a vector of events in increasing time order, and may include events later than the time t to advance to. Example code to traverse this list is:-

Time handleEvents(EventList el, Time t) {
  for (int i=0; i < el.size(); i++) {
    Event ev = el.elementAt(i);

    Time evtime     = ev.getTime();
    ClassID evclass = ev.getClassID();
    Connection  c   = ev.getConnection();
  }
}

The basic event includes a timestamp, a class identifier and the connection it arrived on. The connection includes which input port, source entity handle and output port, and also a connection id which is unique for this entity.

    Connection c       = ev.getConnection();
    EntityID deste     = c.getDstEntityID();
    PortID destport    = c.getDstPortID();
    ConnectionID destc = c.getConnectionID();
    EntityID srce      = c.getSrcEntityID();
    PortID srcport     = c.getSrcPortID();
    Time delay         = c.getDelay();

Some events (e.g. spikes) are binary affairs - it is just necessary to know the time that an event occurred. The code to handle one could look like:

    Event ev = el.elementAt(i);
    PortID p = ev.getConnection().getDstPortID();
    Time evtime = ev.getTime();
    // deal with an event on p at evtime

Other events may include complex information, e.g. a Morphology. The integer class identifier of the event is available by calling the getClassID() method, e.g. an entity which receives morphologies and spikes:

    ClassID morphologyEventID = NeosimClasses.getClassFromName("MorphologyEvent");
    ClassID spikeEventID = NeosimClasses.getClassFromName("SpikeEvent");
    ClassID evclass = ev.getClassID();
    switch (evclass) { 
       case morphologyEventID : // got a morphology event
       case spikeEventID : // got a spike event
       // ...
    }