[Boost-users] [statechart] Events forwarding and orthogonal states

Subject: [Boost-users] [statechart] Events forwarding and orthogonal states
From: lucaghera (lucaghera8_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-13 06:02:42

Hi all,

I've a problem similar to the one discussed in this old post:
http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/statechart-Broadcasting-events-to-orthogonal-states-td2595350.html

I have a state, let's call it A, which contains two orthogonal regions.
State X is the initial state of region 0 and state Y is the initial state of
region 1.

Both state A and state Y have a custom reaction for event E. State Y execute
some computation based on event E while state A simply keeps track of how
many times the event E is triggered. State A discard the event at the end of
the custom reaction, while state Y forward it (the goal would be to forward
it to the state A).

>From the old post I think I have understood how the statechart library works
and why the state Y never receives the event E. I guess that in my case
state X is chosen as first state to process event E. Given that X is not
interested in event E, the event is forwarded to state A, which process it
and discard it.

I see few possible solutions (with drawbacks) but I would like to know how
this problem should be addressed.
1) I could do the counting directly in the state Y and remove the custom
reaction to E from state A. This would work, however if tomorrow I will
define a third state Z interested in E, I would have to duplicate the event
counting code, which would work only if I assume that the Z and Y are not
active at the same time (otherwise the event would be counted twice).
2) I could define an event that is listened only by state A and is triggered
by the state Y after processing E. This doesn't seem really elegant and if
multiple states are interested in E I have to be careful to not count the
event twice.  

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