Package com.aquima.interactions.matching.impl.model

Class Case

java.lang.Object

com.aquima.interactions.matching.impl.model.Case

All Implemented Interfaces:

ICase, IMatchValue

public class Case
extends Object
implements ICase

This class contains the values of a single case in the casebase.

Since:

6.2

Author:

O. Kerpershoek, F. van der Meer

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	Case(String caseId, IMatchDefinition[] definitions)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	equals(Object obj)
String	getId()	This method returns a unique ID for the case.
ISingleValue	getKeyValue()	This method returns the value of the case for the key field of the casebase.
IMatchValue[]	getValues()	This method returns an array containing all the values of the case that can be matched.
int	hashCode()
protected void	setKeyValue(ISingleValue keyValue)
protected void	setValue(int index, IMatchValue matchValue)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

Case

protected Case(String caseId,
 IMatchDefinition[] definitions)

Method Details

getId

public String getId()

Description copied from interface: ICase

This method returns a unique ID for the case. The ID of the case is used to identify the case in the match result.

Specified by:

getId in interface ICase

Returns:

A unique ID for the case (never null).

setKeyValue

protected void setKeyValue(ISingleValue keyValue)

setValue

protected void setValue(int index,
 IMatchValue matchValue)

getKeyValue

public ISingleValue getKeyValue()

Description copied from interface: ICase

This method returns the value of the case for the key field of the casebase. Only single-valued attributes can be used as key field.

Specified by:

getKeyValue in interface ICase

Returns:

the key field value of the case.

getValues

public IMatchValue[] getValues()

Description copied from interface: ICase

This method returns an array containing all the values of the case that can be matched. The values are returned in the exact same order as the match functions defined for the casebase.

Important note: This ordering of the output array is a design v.s. optimization issue which has favored to the optimization side. Since a casebase consisting of 1,000,000 cases matching over 20 attributes per case will result in 20 million hash map lookups. Since the order is known from the clients point of view one can access this array directly resulting in a much faster process.

Specified by:

getValues in interface ICase

Returns:

an array containing all the values of the case that can be matched.

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class Object