Test whether the message is conflatable.
Message conflation is an advanced topic. Most message types will not make use of this feature.
If a conflatable message is posted to a handler while another
conflatable message of the same type has already been posted
to the handler, the conflate() method of the existing message
will be invoked. If that method returns true, the new message
will not be enqueued. This allows messages to be compressed, so
that only a single instance of the message type is processed per
cycle, no matter how many times messages of that type are posted.
Custom message types may reimplement this property.
The default implementation is always false.
Conflate this message with another message of the same type.
A conflatable message of the same type.
true if the message was successfully conflated, or
false otherwise.
Message conflation is an advanced topic. Most message types will not make use of this feature.
This method is called automatically by the message loop when the
given message is posted to the handler paired with this message.
This message will already be enqueued and conflatable, and the
given message will have the same type and also be conflatable.
This method should merge the state of the other message into this message as needed so that when this message is finally delivered to the handler, it receives the most up-to-date information.
If this method returns true, it signals that the other message
was successfully conflated and that message will not be enqueued.
If this method returns false, the other message will be enqueued
for normal delivery.
Custom message types may reimplement this method.
The default implementation always returns false.
A message which can be delivered to a message handler.
Notes
This class may be subclassed to create complex message types.