com.haley.haleyrules.eclipsefunction
Class EclipseFunction

java.lang.Object
  com.haley.haleyrules.eclipsefunction.EclipseFunction

Direct Known Subclasses:

EclipseFunctionWithNoArguments, EclipseFunctionWithOneArgument, EclipseFunctionWithTwoArguments, EclipseFunctionWithVariableArguments

public abstract class EclipseFunction

extends java.lang.Object

The EclipseFunction abstract class provides the necessary public definitions needed to extend the Inference Engine with a user-defined Java function.

Field Summary

static int	JULIAN_RETURN_TYPE Value returned by getReturnTypeForJavaDate() for functions that return a specific date.
static int	UTC_RETURN_TYPE Value returned by getReturnTypeForJavaDate() for functions that return a specific point in time.
static int	VARIABLE Value returned by getArity() for functions that take a variable number of arguments.

Constructor Summary

EclipseFunction()

Method Summary

abstract int	getArity() Get the arity of the function
int	getReturnTypeForJavaDate() Get the return type when the Java function implementing this EclipseFunction returns Date object

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

VARIABLE

public static final int VARIABLE

Value returned by getArity() for functions that take a variable number of arguments.

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Constant Field Values

UTC_RETURN_TYPE

public static final int UTC_RETURN_TYPE

Value returned by getReturnTypeForJavaDate() for functions that return a specific point in time.

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Constant Field Values

JULIAN_RETURN_TYPE

public static final int JULIAN_RETURN_TYPE

Value returned by getReturnTypeForJavaDate() for functions that return a specific date.

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

EclipseFunction

public EclipseFunction()

Method Detail

getArity

public abstract int getArity()

Get the arity of the function

getReturnTypeForJavaDate

public int getReturnTypeForJavaDate()

Get the return type when the Java function implementing this EclipseFunction returns Date object