gov.nasa.arc.brahms.common.data
Class UnknownType

java.lang.Object
  gov.nasa.arc.brahms.common.data.BrahmsObject
      gov.nasa.arc.brahms.common.data.UnknownType

All Implemented Interfaces:

Type, gov.nasa.arc.brahms.common.IConstants, java.io.Serializable

public class UnknownType
extends BrahmsObject
implements Type

The UnknownType represents the type of the 'unknown' value.

Version:

3 August 2001

Author:

Ron van Hoof

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

static UnknownType

UNKNOWN_TYPE Constant defining the unknown type used for values specified as unknown

Fields inherited from interface gov.nasa.arc.brahms.common.IConstants

ABORT, ACTIVECLASS, ACTIVECONCEPT, ACTIVEINSTANCE, AGENT, ANONYMOUS, ANYAGENT, AREA, AREADEF, ASSIGNED, ATTRIBUTE, BASEAREADEF, BASECLASS, BASECONCEPTUALCLASS, BASEGROUP, BASELIBRARY, BOOLEAN, BROADCAST, BUILDING, BYTE, CCLOCK, CDATE, CHAR, CITY, CLASS, CLOCK, COLLECTALL, COMMUNICATE, COMPLETE, COMPOSITE, COMPUTER, CONCEPT, CONCEPTUALCLASS, CONCEPTUALCONCEPT, CONCEPTUALOBJECT, CONTINUE, COPY, CREATEAGENT, CREATEAREA, CREATEOBJECT, current, CURRENT, DATAFRAME, DATE, DB, DETECTABLE, DIV, DOUBLE, EMAIL, EMPTY_STRING, END, ENDACTIVITY, ENTAGENT, EQ, EXCEPTION, EXPR, FACE2FACE, FACTFRAME, FALSE, FAX, FLOAT, FOREACH, FORONE, G2, GE, GEOGRAPHYCONCEPT, GESTURE, GET, GROUP, GT, IMPASSE, INT, INVALID, JAVA, JAVA_TYPE, KNOWN_MODIFIER, KNOWNVAL_MODIFIER, LE, LOCAL, LONG, LT, MAP, MINUS, MOD, MOVE, MULT, NE, NEW, NONE, NOT_MODIFIER, NOWORK, O, OA, OBJECT, ONTOLOGY, PAGER, PARAMETER, PATH, PHONE, PLUS, PRIMITIVE, PRIVATE, PROAGENT, PROTECTED, PRSAGENT, PUBLIC, PUT, RECEIVE, RELATION, sACTIVECLASS, sACTIVECONCEPT, sACTIVEINSTANCE, sAGENT, sARCHIVE, sAREA, sAREADEF, sBOOLEAN, sBYTE, sBYTECODEEXT, sCHAR, sCLASS, sCOMPUTER, sCONCEPT, sCONCEPTUALCLASS, sCONCEPTUALCONCEPT, sCONCEPTUALOBJECT, sCOPY, sCURRENT, sDETECTABLE, sDOUBLE, sEMAIL, sEND, SEND, sFACE2FACE, sFAX, sFILEEXT, sFLOAT, sGEOGRAPHYCONCEPT, sGROUP, SHORT, SIMAGENT, sINT, sJAVA_TYPE, sLONG, sMAP, sNEW, sNONE, sNOWORK, sOBJECT, SOURCECODE, sPAGER, sPARAMETER, sPATH, sPHONE, sPRIVATE, sPROJECTEXT, sPROTECTED, sPUBLIC, sSHORT, sSTART, sSTRING, sSYMBOL, START, STRING, sUNKNOWN, sVOID, SYMBOL, TRUE, UDT, UML, UNASSIGNED, UNDEFINED, unknown, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN_MODIFIER, V, VARIABLE, VOID, WHENEVER, WORKFRAME, WORLD, XML

Constructor Summary

UnknownType()
Constructor, creates a new UnknownType.

Method Summary

boolean	compareTypes(Type type, boolean target) This method compares this type with the given type and checks based on the target flag whether the types can be converted to one another.
java.lang.String	getFullyQualifiedName() Returns the fully qualified name of the type.
java.lang.String	getName() Returns the string representation of the type.
int	getType() Returns the numeric constant representing the UNKNOWN type.

Methods inherited from class gov.nasa.arc.brahms.common.data.BrahmsObject

delete, export, getFile, getID, getLine, getSerialNumber, isBCC, isDynamic, isLoaded, isResolved, setBCC, setDynamic, setFile, setID, setID, setLine, setLoaded, setResolved, setSerialNumber

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface gov.nasa.arc.brahms.common.data.Type

getSerialNumber

Field Detail

UNKNOWN_TYPE

public static final UnknownType UNKNOWN_TYPE

Constant defining the unknown type used for values specified as unknown

Constructor Detail

UnknownType

public UnknownType()

Constructor, creates a new UnknownType.

Method Detail

getType

public int getType()

Returns the numeric constant representing the UNKNOWN type.

Specified by:

getType in interface Type

Returns:

int the type

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns the string representation of the type.

Specified by:

getName in interface Type

Returns:

String the type name 'unknown'

getFullyQualifiedName

public java.lang.String getFullyQualifiedName()

Returns the fully qualified name of the type. This is equal to the name of the type.

Specified by:

getFullyQualifiedName in interface Type

Returns:

String the fully qualified name

compareTypes

public boolean compareTypes(Type type,
                            boolean target)

This method compares this type with the given type and checks based on the target flag whether the types can be converted to one another. If target is true this method checks if the given type can be converted to or is compatible with this type. If target is false this method checks whether this type can be converted to or is compatible with the given type.

Specified by:

compareTypes in interface Type

Parameters:

type - the type to compare this type with

target - true if this type is the target false if the given type ios the target

Returns:

boolean an true if the types are compatible, false otherwise