EOOrQualifier

Inherits from:
EOQualifier

Implements:
NSCoding
EOKeyValueArchiving

Package:
com.webobjects.eocontrol

Class Description

EOOrQualifier is a subclass of EOQualifier that contains multiple qualifiers. EOOrQualifier implements the EOQualifierEvaluation interface, which defines the method evaluateWithObject for in-memory evaluation. When an EOOrQualifier object receives an evaluateWithObject message, it evaluates each of its qualifiers until one of them returns true. If one of its qualifiers returns true, the EOOrQualifier object returns true immediately. If all of its qualifiers return false, the EOOrQualifier object returns false.

Interfaces Implemented

EOQualifierEvaluation
evaluateWithObject

NSCoding
classForCoder
decodeObject
encodeWithCoder

EOKeyValueArchiving
decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver
encodeWithKeyValueArchiver

Constructors

EOOrQualifier

public EOOrQualifier(NSArray qualifiers)

Creates and returns a new EOOrQualifier. If qualifiers is provided, the EOOrQualifier is initialized with the qualifiers in qualifiers.

Static Methods

decodeObject

public static Object decodeObject(NSCoder coder)

Conformance to NSCoding.

decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver

public static Object decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver(EOKeyValueUnarchiver unarchiver)

Conformance to EOKeyValueArchiving.

Instance Methods

addQualifierKeysToSet

public void addQualifierKeysToSet(NSMutableSet aSet)

Description forthcoming.

classForCoder

public Class classForCoder()

Conformance to NSCoding.

encodeWithCoder

public void encodeWithCoder(NSCoder coder)

Conformance to NSCoding.

encodeWithKeyValueArchiver

public void encodeWithKeyValueArchiver(EOKeyValueArchiver archiver)

Conformance to EOKeyValueArchiving.

evaluateWithObject

public boolean evaluateWithObject(NSKeyValueCodingAdditions anObject);

Returns true if anObject satisfies the qualifier, false otherwise. When an EOOrQualifier object receives an evaluateWithObject message, it evaluates each of its qualifiers until one of them returns true. If any of its qualifiers returns true, the EOOrQualifier object returns true immediately. If all of its qualifiers return false, the EOOrQualifier object returns false. This method can throw one of several possible exceptions if an error occurs. If your application allows users to construct arbitrary qualifiers (such as through a user interface), you may want to write code to catch any exceptions and respond to errors (for example, by displaying a panel saying that the user typed a poorly formed qualifier).

qualifiers

NSArray qualifiers()

Returns the receiver's qualifiers.

qualifierWithBindings

public EOQualifier qualifierWithBindings( NSDictionary, boolean)

Description forthcoming.

toString

public String toString()

Description forthcoming.

validateKeysWithRootClassDescription

public void validateKeysWithRootClassDescription(EOClassDescription classDesc)

Ensures that the receiver contains keys and key paths that belong to or originate from classDesc. This method raises an exception if an unknown key is found, otherwise it returns null to indicate that the keys contained by the qualifier are valid.