project.biota.digir
Class SchemaConcept

java.lang.Object
  project.biota.digir.SchemaConcept

public class SchemaConcept

extends Object

A wrapper around java.lang.String to represent the name of a schema concept. The schema concepts are read at application startup, they are kept in a java.util.HashSet. When a DiGIR request comes in, each schema concept used in the request is checked for memebership in this java.util.HashSet. In order to ignore the difference in letter case, this class overrides the equals() and hashCode() methods of class java.lang.String.

Author:

Kimmy Lin

See Also:

String

Constructor Summary

SchemaConcept(String conceptName)
Constructs a ConceptString object for a schema concept.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj) Overrides the String.equals() method.
String	getName() Gets the name of this schema concept.
int	hashCode() Overrides the String.hashCode() method.
String	toString() Returns the name of this schema concept.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SchemaConcept

public SchemaConcept(String conceptName)

Constructs a ConceptString object for a schema concept.

Parameters:

conceptName - the name of the schema concept

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Gets the name of this schema concept.

Returns:

the name of this schema concept.

toString

public String toString()

Returns the name of this schema concept.

Returns:

the name of this schema concept

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Overrides the String.equals() method.

Parameters:

obj - the object to compare this String against

Returns:

true if the name of two schema concepts are equal, ignoring case

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides the String.hashCode() method. It turns the name of the schema concept to upper case and gets the hash code of the upper-case name.

Returns:

a hash code value of the upper-case name of the schema concept