com.steptools.stdev

Class Enumeration

java.lang.Object

com.steptools.stdev.Enumeration

All Implemented Interfaces:

Instance, Cloneable

public abstract class Enumeration
extends Object
implements Instance

An instance of an EXPRESS ENUMERATION type. Each EXPRESS ENUMERATION is mapped to a class with the name of the EXPRESS defined type which extends this class. There is one static final instance of that class for each item listed in the enumeration. Each of those items is kept in a static final field of the Enumeration object.

The methods defined in this base class provide the late-bound interface.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	Enumeration(int r, String n)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	clone() Generate a shallow copy of this object
String	getName() Gets the name of the item as defined in EPXRESS.
int	getRank() Gets the rank of the iten as defined in EPXRESS.
String	toString() Gets the name of the item as defined in EPXRESS.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.steptools.stdev.Instance

domain

Constructor Detail

Enumeration

protected Enumeration(int r,
           String n)

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Gets the name of the item as defined in EPXRESS.

Returns:

The name of the item.

toString

public String toString()

Gets the name of the item as defined in EPXRESS.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

The name of the item.

getRank

public int getRank()

Gets the rank of the iten as defined in EPXRESS. The first item is 0, and subsequent items are one greater.

Returns:

The rank of the item.

clone

public Object clone()
             throws CloneNotSupportedException

Description copied from interface: Instance

Generate a shallow copy of this object

Specified by:

clone in interface Instance

Overrides:

clone in class Object

Returns:

A copy of this object

Throws:

CloneNotSupportedException - If this object cannot be cloned. This is not thrown be any ST-Developer class, but was provided in the java.lang.Object prototype for clone().