uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.wrappers
Class AutoMedBoolean

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.wrappers.AutoMedType
      uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.wrappers.AutoMedBoolean

public class AutoMedBoolean
extends AutoMedType

Provides generic representation boolean values.

Author:

Peter McBrien (pjm@doc.ic.ac.uk)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.wrappers.AutoMedType

BOOLEAN, FLOAT, INTEGER, NULL_STR, STRING, TIME, TUPLE

Constructor Summary

AutoMedBoolean()
Create a new AutoMedBoolean that is null in value.

AutoMedBoolean(boolean value)
Create a new AutoMedBoolean

AutoMedBoolean(java.lang.String value)
Create a new AutoMedBoolean from a String value.

Method Summary

boolean	booleanValue() Return a boolean representation of this AutoMedBoolean.
double	doubleValue() Return a double representation of this AutoMedBoolean, where true is 1.0 and false 0.0
boolean	equals(AutoMedType v) Test two AutoMedTypes for equality, performing conversions as appropriate.
int	getType() Return the Type (INTEGER, TUPLE, ...) of this AutoMedType
java.lang.String	toString() Return a string representation of this AutoMedBoolean.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.wrappers.AutoMedType

isLiteral, isNull, isNumeric

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AutoMedBoolean

public AutoMedBoolean(boolean value)

Create a new AutoMedBoolean

AutoMedBoolean

public AutoMedBoolean(java.lang.String value)

Create a new AutoMedBoolean from a String value.

Parameters:

value - the string used to set the boolean value, where any string beginning with `t' or `T' will result in true as the boolean value, and any other string will result in false

AutoMedBoolean

public AutoMedBoolean()

Create a new AutoMedBoolean that is null in value.

Method Detail

booleanValue

public boolean booleanValue()

Return a boolean representation of this AutoMedBoolean.

doubleValue

public double doubleValue()

Return a double representation of this AutoMedBoolean, where true is 1.0 and false 0.0

Specified by:

doubleValue in class AutoMedType

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Return a string representation of this AutoMedBoolean.

Specified by:

toString in class AutoMedType

equals

public boolean equals(AutoMedType v)

Description copied from class: AutoMedType

Test two AutoMedTypes for equality, performing conversions as appropriate. Note that, unlike SQL but like Java, two null types will return true when compared.

Specified by:

equals in class AutoMedType

getType

public final int getType()

Description copied from class: AutoMedType

Return the Type (INTEGER, TUPLE, ...) of this AutoMedType

Specified by:

getType in class AutoMedType