BiteEngine Class

BiteEngine

The BiteEngine is the main container of the biotic disturbance engine that can contain multiple agents at the same time.

When the Bite system is enabled, a global variable Bite is available in the global Javascript context.

Bite is automatically run by iLand, but execution can be triggered via Javascript (run()).

agents (array of strings)
The agents property is a list of the names of currently available agents.

// loop over all agents, and dump info
for (var i=0;i<Bite.agents.length;++i)
   Bite.log(Bite.agent(Bite.agents[i]).info())

agent(string agent_name): agent

returns the agent with the given name agent_name.
log(string text)

writes a log message to the console.
log(Object obj)

writes a string representation of the Javascript object obj to the console.
run(int year)

executes Bite (all agents). year is used internally as the curernt year (note: might be different than Globals.year)