com.tensegrity.generic.constraint
Class MetricExpressionConstraint

java.lang.Object
  com.tensegrity.generic.constraint.AbstractConstraint
      com.tensegrity.generic.constraint.MetricExpressionConstraint

All Implemented Interfaces:

Constraint

public class MetricExpressionConstraint

extends com.tensegrity.generic.constraint.AbstractConstraint

implements Constraint

The MetricExpressionConstraint class tests a given object to be an instance of a MetricExpression and afterwards against a specified comparison type. If the given object violates one of these criterias the method returns either false or throws an appropriate exception.
NOTICE:The MetricExpressionConstraint doesn't support comparisons against the unit of the MetricExpression. This means for instance that an expression like '1cm' is equal to '10mm'.

Version:

$Id: MetricExpressionConstraint.java,v 1.4 2006/06/08 12:13:07 MichaelKegel Exp $

Author:

MKegel

Field Summary

protected java.lang.String

lastError string used to trace for the last error

Method Summary

Constraint	intern() Pools this constraint analogous to the java.lang.String.intern() method.
java.lang.String	toString() Returns a string representation of this constraint and its children (if any).
void	trace(java.lang.StringBuffer sb) Default implementation appending the last error occured to the given StringBuffer.
boolean	validate(java.lang.Object value) Validates this contraint against a given value.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.tensegrity.generic.constraint.Constraint

intern, trace

Field Detail

lastError

protected java.lang.String lastError

string used to trace for the last error

Method Detail

validate

public boolean validate(java.lang.Object value)

Description copied from interface: Constraint

Validates this contraint against a given value.
Notice:The given argument may not be null.

Specified by:

validate in interface Constraint

Parameters:

value - the object to validate. It is not allowed to pass in null as an argument.

Returns:

true if this value confirms to this constraints and false if it doesn't.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns a string representation of this constraint and its children (if any).

Returns:

string representation of this constraint.

intern

public Constraint intern()

Pools this constraint analogous to the java.lang.String.intern() method. This method is not threadsafe.

Specified by:

intern in interface Constraint

Returns:

the pooled instance of this constraint. The returned object reference is the same as the this-reference if this object has not been pooled before.

trace

public void trace(java.lang.StringBuffer sb)

Default implementation appending the last error occured to the given StringBuffer.

Specified by:

trace in interface Constraint

Parameters:

sb - the stringbuffer to append the last error to.