mobios.type
Class Fragment

java.lang.Object
  mobios.type.IndexObject
      mobios.type.Fragment

All Implemented Interfaces:

Externalizable, Serializable, Comparable<IndexObject>

public class Fragment
extends IndexObject

TODO

Version:

2006.07.31

Author:

Willard

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Fragment()
TODO

Fragment(mobios.db.SequenceTable table, int rowID)
TODO

Method Summary

int	compareTo(IndexObject oThat)
boolean	equals(Object object)
IndexObject[]	expand() This method is necessary to implement bucketing, so that similar objects are only stored once in the database.
Symbol	get(int i) TODO
int	hashCode()
void	readExternal(ObjectInput in)
int	size()
String	toString() all implementing classes are required to override toString
void	writeExternal(ObjectOutput out)

Methods inherited from class mobios.type.IndexObject

getRowID, setRowID, setRowIDLength

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Fragment

public Fragment()

TODO

Fragment

public Fragment(mobios.db.SequenceTable table,
                int rowID)

TODO

Parameters:

table -

rowID -

Method Detail

get

public Symbol get(int i)

TODO

Parameters:

i -

Returns:

size

public int size()

Specified by:

size in class IndexObject

Returns:

the size of the object

expand

public IndexObject[] expand()

Description copied from class: IndexObject

This method is necessary to implement bucketing, so that similar objects are only stored once in the database. If you do not want to implement bucketing for your object, you can just return an array of length one containing this object.

Specified by:

expand in class IndexObject

Returns:

an array of IndexObjects

compareTo

public int compareTo(IndexObject oThat)

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable<IndexObject>

Specified by:

compareTo in class IndexObject

equals

public final boolean equals(Object object)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

toString

public String toString()

Description copied from class: IndexObject

all implementing classes are required to override toString

Specified by:

toString in class IndexObject

readExternal

public void readExternal(ObjectInput in)
                  throws IOException,
                         ClassNotFoundException

Specified by:

readExternal in interface Externalizable

Overrides:

readExternal in class IndexObject

Throws:

IOException

ClassNotFoundException

writeExternal

public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out)
                   throws IOException

Specified by:

writeExternal in interface Externalizable

Overrides:

writeExternal in class IndexObject

Throws:

IOException