pla.data
Class Rule

java.lang.Object
  pla.data.NamedThing
      pla.data.NodeThing
          pla.data.Rule

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparable

public class Rule
extends NodeThing

Encapsulating a rule.

Rule objects are ordered in a special way. If the two comparing names do not both start with Integers, simply use case insensitive String ordering. Otherwise, it orders the Strings according to the numerical order of the Integers at the beginning, e.g., "4" comes before "10".

Author:

linda

Constructor Summary

Rule(Rule r)
Construct a Rule as a clone of a given one.

Rule(String name, int ID)
Construct a Rule.

Rule(String name, int ID, String longName)
Construct a Rule with an associated long name.

Method Summary

int	compareTo(Object o)
boolean	equals(Object o)

Methods inherited from class pla.data.NodeThing

getID, getLongName, hashCode, isSelected, isShowLongName, setSelected, setShowLongName, toString

Methods inherited from class pla.data.NamedThing

getName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Rule

public Rule(String name,
            int ID)

Construct a Rule. The given name must be non-null and non-empty (after trimming), otherwise constructor throws a RuntimeException. Uses the name also as the long name since it cannot be null.

Parameters:

name - String containing name

ID - numerical ID (used for identification)

Rule

public Rule(String name,
            int ID,
            String longName)

Construct a Rule with an associated long name. The given name must be non-nulland non-empty (after trimming), otherwise constructor throws a RuntimeException.

Parameters:

name - String containing name

ID - numerical ID (used for identification)

longName - String containing a long name

Rule

public Rule(Rule r)

Construct a Rule as a clone of a given one.

Parameters:

r - Rule to be cloned

Method Detail

compareTo

public int compareTo(Object o)

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable

Overrides:

compareTo in class NodeThing

equals

public boolean equals(Object o)

Overrides:

equals in class NodeThing