Enum Constant Detail

• GREATER_THAN

  public static final CompareOperator GREATER_THAN

  CompareOperator to check if some value is greater than another.

• GREATER_OR_EQUAL

  public static final CompareOperator GREATER_OR_EQUAL

  CompareOperator to check if some value is greater or equal to another.

• LESS_THAN

  public static final CompareOperator LESS_THAN

  CompareOperator to check if some value is less than another.

• LESS_OR_EQUAL

  public static final CompareOperator LESS_OR_EQUAL

  CompareOperator to check if some value is less or equal than another.

• EQUAL

  public static final CompareOperator EQUAL

  CompareOperator to check if objects are equal.

• NOT_EQUAL

  public static final CompareOperator NOT_EQUAL

  CompareOperator to check if objects are NOT equal.

Method Detail

• values

  public static CompareOperator[] values()

  Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

  for (CompareOperator c : CompareOperator.values())
      System.out.println(c);
  

  Returns:

  an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

• valueOf

  public static CompareOperator valueOf​(String name)

  Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

  Parameters:

  name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

  Returns:

  the enum constant with the specified name

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

  NullPointerException - if the argument is null

• getSymbol

  public String getSymbol()

  Returns:

  the symbol of this CompareOperator ("==", ">", ">=", "<", or "<=")

• negate

  public abstract CompareOperator negate()

  Returns:

  the negation of this CompareOperator that evaluates to the negated result.

• evalDelta

  public abstract boolean evalDelta​(int delta)

  Parameters:

  delta - the signum of Comparable.compareTo(Object) or Integer.MIN_VALUE if the arguments are incompatible (e.g. exactly one is null or String compared with Boolean).

  Returns:

  the result of the CompareOperator for the given delta.

• evalDouble

  public boolean evalDouble​(double arg1,
                            double arg2)

  This method evaluates this CompareOperator for the given arguments.

  Parameters:

  arg1 - is the first argument.

  arg2 - is the second argument.

  Returns:

  the result of the CompareOperator applied to the given arguments.

• evalComparable

  public <T extends Comparable<T>> boolean evalComparable​(T arg1,
                                                          T arg2)

  This method evaluates this CompareOperator for the given Comparable arguments.

  Type Parameters:

  T - type of the Comparable objects.

  Parameters:

  arg1 - is the first argument.

  arg2 - is the second argument.

  Returns:

  the result of the CompareOperator applied to the given arguments.

  See Also:

  evalObject(Object, Object)

• evalObject

  public boolean evalObject​(Object arg1,
                            Object arg2)

  Generic variant of evalComparable(Comparable, Comparable) that tries to convert incompatible arguments:

  • If both arguments are same it will return evalDelta(0).
  • If only exactly one of the arguments is null it will return evalDelta(Integer.MIN_VALUE).
  • If both arguments are Numbers it delegates to evalNumber(Number, Number)
  • If both arguments are Comparables:
    • If both Comparables have different types but each of them is a standard Temporal or Date/Calendar, then one of them is converted to the other. Please note that some combinations are still invalid so e.g. LocalDate and LocalTime are not comparable.
    • If we now have two Comparables of the same type, we delegate to evalComparable(Comparable, Comparable).

  Parameters:

  arg1 - is the first argument.

  arg2 - is the second argument.

  Returns:

  the result of the CompareOperator applied to the given arguments.

• evalNumber

  public boolean evalNumber​(Number arg1,
                            Number arg2)

  This method evaluates this CompareOperator for the given Number arguments.

  Parameters:

  arg1 - is the first argument.

  arg2 - is the second argument.

  Returns:

  the result of the CompareOperator applied to the given arguments.

  See Also:

  evalObject(Object, Object)

• toString

  public String toString()

  Overrides:

  toString in class Enum<CompareOperator>

• ofSymbol

  public static CompareOperator ofSymbol​(String value)

  This method gets the CompareOperator for the given symbol.

  Parameters:

  value - is the symbol of the requested CompareOperator.

  Returns:

  the requested CompareOperator or null if no such CompareOperator exists.