project.biota.util
Class Keyword

java.lang.Object
  project.biota.util.Keyword

public class Keyword

extends Object

Keyword holds the DiGIR keywords. There are three types of keyword:

- COP includes equals, notEquals, greaterThan, greaterThanOrEquals, lessThan, lessThanOrEquals, like.
- MultiCOP includes IN.
- LOP includes and, or, andNot, orNot

Author:

Kimmy Lin

Field Summary

static int	COP Comparitive OPerator
static int	LOP Logical OPerator
static int	MULTICOP MULTI-element Comparitive OPerator

Constructor Summary

Keyword(String value, int type)
Constructs a Keyword object holding its value and type.

Method Summary

int	getKeyType() Gets the type of the keyword, COP, MULTICOP, or LOP.
String	getValue() Gets the string value of the keyword.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

COP

public static int COP

Comparitive OPerator

MULTICOP

public static int MULTICOP

MULTI-element Comparitive OPerator

LOP

public static int LOP

Logical OPerator

Constructor Detail

Keyword

public Keyword(String value,
               int type)

Constructs a Keyword object holding its value and type.

Parameters:

value - the string value of the keyword

type - the type of the keyword

Method Detail

getValue

public String getValue()

Gets the string value of the keyword. Could be "=", "!=", "<", "<=", ">", ">=", "!=", "like", "and", "and not", "or", "or not". Note that keyword "IN" doesn't have a value because it has been replaced with multiple query statements combined by the logical operator "or".

Returns:

the string value of the keyword

getKeyType

public int getKeyType()

Gets the type of the keyword, COP, MULTICOP, or LOP.

Returns:

the type of the keyword (COP, MULTICOP, or LOP)