Class AbstractInstanceOfPredicate

    • Constructor Detail

      • AbstractInstanceOfPredicate

        public AbstractInstanceOfPredicate​(TopicMapIF topicmap)
    • Method Detail

      • getSignature

        public String getSignature()
        Description copied from interface: PredicateIF
        INTERNAL: Returns a string representing the signature of the predicate. The string consists of a whitespace-separated list of arguments, where each argument is made up of tokens representing the type or cardinality of that argument.

        The instance-of predicate would have a signature of "t t", while /= would have ". .", and in would have ". .+". For full details, see topicmaps.impl.utils.ArgumentValidator.

        Specified by:
        getSignature in interface PredicateIF
      • getCost

        public int getCost​(boolean[] boundparams)
        Description copied from interface: PredicateIF
        INTERNAL.
        Specified by:
        getCost in interface PredicateIF
      • start

        protected abstract void start()
        INTERNAL: Called before the evaluation of a new query, to allow resetting of internal caches etc.
      • getClasses

        protected abstract Collection getClasses​(TopicIF instance)
        INTERNAL: Should return all applicable types of the given topic. In 'instance-of' this includes the supertypes of the topic's types.
      • getInstances

        protected abstract Collection getInstances​(TopicIF klass)
        INTERNAL: Should return all instances of the topic, as seen by the specific predicate.
      • getTypes

        protected abstract Collection getTypes()
        INTERNAL: Should return all topic types, as seen by the specific predicate.
      • getSupertypes

        protected abstract Collection getSupertypes​(TopicIF type)
        INTERNAL: Should return all supertypes of the given class, including the class itself. In 'direct-instance-of' this should just be the class itself.
      • getDirectInstances

        protected Collection getDirectInstances​(TopicIF classes)
        INTERNAL: Should return all instances of the topic, as seen by the specific predicate.