com.webobjects.eocontrol
Class EOAndQualifier

java.lang.Object
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All Implemented Interfaces:

EOKeyValueArchiving, EOQualifierEvaluation, NSCoding, Serializable

public class EOAndQualifier

extends EOQualifier

implements NSCoding, EOKeyValueArchiving

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

See Also:

evaluateWithObject(Object object), Serialized Form

Inner classes inherited from class com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOQualifier

EOQualifier.Comparison, EOQualifier.ComparisonSupport, EOQualifier.QualifierVariableSubstitutionException

Inner classes inherited from class com.webobjects.foundation.NSCoding

NSCoding.Support

Inner classes inherited from class com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving

EOKeyValueArchiving.Awaking, EOKeyValueArchiving.FinishInitialization, EOKeyValueArchiving.Support

Fields inherited from class com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOQualifier

QualifierOperatorCaseInsensitiveLike, QualifierOperatorContains, QualifierOperatorEqual, QualifierOperatorGreaterThan, QualifierOperatorGreaterThanOrEqualTo, QualifierOperatorLessThan, QualifierOperatorLessThanOrEqualTo, QualifierOperatorLike, QualifierOperatorNotEqual

Constructor Summary

EOAndQualifier(NSArray qualifiers)
Creates a new EOAndQualifier.

Method Summary

void	addQualifierKeysToSet(NSMutableSet qualKeys) Adds the receiver's qualifier keys to qualKeys.
Class	classForCoder() Allows the receiver to substitute a class other than its own (for example, a public superclass) for use during archiving (encoding) by an NSCoder.
static Object	decodeObject(NSCoder coder) (Re)creates an object based on type information and data stored in coder.
static Object	decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver(EOKeyValueUnarchiver unarchiver) Conforms to EOKeyValueArchiving.
void	encodeWithCoder(NSCoder coder) Archives the receiver's type information and data into coder.
void	encodeWithKeyValueArchiver(EOKeyValueArchiver archiver) Conforms to EOKeyValueArchiving.
boolean	equals(Object other)
boolean	evaluateWithObject(Object object) When an EOAndQualifier object receives an evaluateWithObject message, it evaluates each of its qualifiers until one of them returns false.
NSArray	qualifiers() The qualifiers contained in the receiver.
EOQualifier	qualifierWithBindings(NSDictionary bindings, boolean requiresAll) If requiresAll is true, any variable not found in bindings throws an exception.
String	toString() String containing the description of all the qualifiers contained on receiver.
void	validateKeysWithRootClassDescription(EOClassDescription classDesc) Ensures that the receiver contains keys and key paths that belong to or originate from classDesc.

Methods inherited from class com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOQualifier

allQualifierKeys, allQualifierOperators, bindingKeys, clone, filterArrayWithQualifier, filteredArrayWithQualifier, keyPathForBindingKey, operatorSelectorForSelectorNamed, operatorSelectorForString, qualifierToMatchAllValues, qualifierToMatchAnyValue, qualifierWithQualifierFormat, relationalQualifierOperators, stringForOperatorSelector

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EOAndQualifier

public EOAndQualifier(NSArray qualifiers)

Creates a new EOAndQualifier. If qualifiers is provided, the new EOAndQualifier is initialized with the objects in qualifiers.

Parameters:

qualifiers - immutable array of EOQualifier objects

Method Detail

addQualifierKeysToSet

public void addQualifierKeysToSet(NSMutableSet qualKeys)

Adds the receiver's qualifier keys to qualKeys. The subclasses in the EOControl layer do this by traversing the tree of qualifiers. Node qualifiers (such as EOAndQualifier) recursively invoke this method until they reach a leaf qualifier (such as EOKeyValueQualifier) which adds its key to the set.

Subclasses of EOQualifier must implement this method.

Overrides:

addQualifierKeysToSet in class EOQualifier

Parameters:

qualKeys - the mutable array of qualifier keys.

classForCoder

public Class classForCoder()

Allows the receiver to substitute a class other than its own (for example, a public superclass) for use during archiving (encoding) by an NSCoder. Default is the value of the getClass method.

Specified by:

classForCoder in interface NSCoding

Returns:

the Class to be used with an NSCoder

See Also:

encodeWithCoder(NSCoder coder), decodeObject(NSCoder coder), NSCoder, NSCoding

decodeObject

public static Object decodeObject(NSCoder coder)

(Re)creates an object based on type information and data stored in coder.

Parameters:

coder - stores object type information along with an object's data

Returns:

an object (re)created from the data in coder.

See Also:

encodeWithCoder(NSCoder coder), NSCoder, NSCoding

decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver

public static Object decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver(EOKeyValueUnarchiver unarchiver)

Conforms to EOKeyValueArchiving.

Parameters:

unarchiver - The EOKeyValueArchiver object with which to decode the receiver

Returns:

The unarchived EOAndQualifier object

encodeWithCoder

public void encodeWithCoder(NSCoder coder)

Archives the receiver's type information and data into coder. The receiver can then be recreated using decodeObject. Custom type information can be used by overriding classForCoder.

Specified by:

encodeWithCoder in interface NSCoding

Parameters:

coder - stores object type information along with an object's data

See Also:

decodeObject(NSCoder coder), classForCoder(), NSCoder, NSCoding

encodeWithKeyValueArchiver

public void encodeWithKeyValueArchiver(EOKeyValueArchiver archiver)

Conforms to EOKeyValueArchiving.

Specified by:

encodeWithKeyValueArchiver in interface EOKeyValueArchiving

Parameters:

archiver - the EOKeyValueArchiver object with which to encode the receiver

equals

public boolean equals(Object other)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

evaluateWithObject

public boolean evaluateWithObject(Object object)

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

Overrides:

evaluateWithObject in class EOQualifier

Parameters:

object - input object to be evaluated

Returns:

true if anObject satisfies the qualifier, false otherwise

qualifierWithBindings

public EOQualifier qualifierWithBindings(NSDictionary bindings,
                                         boolean requiresAll)

If requiresAll is true, any variable not found in bindings throws an exception. If requiresAll is false, missing variable values cause the qualifier node to be pruned from the tree.

Overrides:

qualifierWithBindings in class EOQualifier

Parameters:

bindings - the input array of values

requiresAll - true if all the value are required; otherwise false

Returns:

EOQualifier object with the values in the bindings array

Throws:

exception - when variable not found in bindings.

qualifiers

public NSArray qualifiers()

The qualifiers contained in the receiver.

Returns:

an NSArray of the receiver's qualifiers

See Also:

EOAndQualifier(NSArray qualifiers)

toString

public String toString()

String containing the description of all the qualifiers contained on receiver.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

String representation of the receiver

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 qualifier contains valid keys.

Overrides:

validateKeysWithRootClassDescription in class EOQualifier

Parameters:

classDesc - the bridge between enterprise objects and the metadata contained in an external source of information