tauzaman.field.fvsupport
Class FVSupport

java.lang.Object
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  +--tauzaman.field.fvsupport.FVSupport

Direct Known Subclasses:

FVFunction, FVTable

public abstract class FVSupport

extends java.lang.Object

FVSupport abstrat class represents a generic field value support information, that provides two basic functionality when converting temporal constant strings to timestamps or vice versa.

One of them is called indexToString, which converts indices, such as 1, to corresponding string, such as January in english month names. The other functionality is called stringToIndex, and it does opposite of what indexToString does. Given January, for example, it converts it to corresponding index, which is 1 in again english month names.

This class is used as a base class for FVTable and FVFunction classes.

Status:

design complete, implementation complete

Constructor Summary

FVSupport()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getRegex() Returns regex for this field value if it exists.
java.net.URL	getUrl() Returns url for this field value if it exists.
abstract java.lang.String	indexToString(long index) Converts a given long to corresponding string.
abstract long	stringToIndex(java.lang.String string) Converts a given string to corresponding index.
abstract java.lang.String	toString() Returns a String representation of this FVSupport.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FVSupport

public FVSupport()

Method Detail

stringToIndex

public abstract long stringToIndex(java.lang.String string)
                            throws FVServiceException

Converts a given string to corresponding index.

 Given January for Gregorian calendar and using 
 a table called "EnglishMonthNames", this method returns
 1 as the index of January.
 

Parameters:

string - string representation of input

Returns:

long index corresponding of string

Throws:

FVServiceException - if any problem occurs during process of this field value support method

See Also:

FVTable.indexToString(long), FVFunction.indexToString(long)

indexToString

public abstract java.lang.String indexToString(long index)
                                        throws FVServiceException

Converts a given long to corresponding string.

 Given 1 for Gregorian calendar and using 
 a table called "EnglishMonthNames", this method returns
 January as the string corresponding of 1.
 

Parameters:

index - long representation of input

Returns:

String string corresponding of long index

Throws:

FVServiceException - if any problem occurs during process of this field value support method

See Also:

FVTable.stringToIndex(java.lang.String), FVFunction.stringToIndex(java.lang.String)

getRegex

public java.lang.String getRegex()

Returns regex for this field value if it exists. If it does not exists default regex, which is defined in Calendric System Specification file, will be used.

Returns:

String regular expression defined for this FVsupport

getUrl

public java.net.URL getUrl()

Returns url for this field value if it exists.

Returns:

URL url of this FVsupport

toString

public abstract java.lang.String toString()

Returns a String representation of this FVSupport. String is formed with the label and url of this FVSupport

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a String representing this FVSupport