PropertyPath

See also:

• SearchResult.MatchInfo

PropertyPath

public PropertyPath (List<PropertyPath.PathSegment> pathList)

Constructor directly accepting a path list

PropertyPath

public PropertyPath (String path)

Constructor that parses a string representing the path to populate a List of PathSegments

equals

public boolean equals (Object o)

Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.

The equals method implements an equivalence relation on non-null object references:

• It is reflexive: for any non-null reference value x, x.equals(x) should return true.
• It is symmetric: for any non-null reference values x and y, x.equals(y) should return true if and only if y.equals(x) returns true.
• It is transitive: for any non-null reference values x, y, and z, if x.equals(y) returns true and y.equals(z) returns true, then x.equals(z) should return true.
• It is consistent: for any non-null reference values x and y, multiple invocations of x.equals(y) consistently return true or consistently return false, provided no information used in equals comparisons on the objects is modified.
• For any non-null reference value x, x.equals(null) should return false.

The equals method for class Object implements the most discriminating possible equivalence relation on objects; that is, for any non-null reference values x and y, this method returns true if and only if x and y refer to the same object (x == y has the value true).

Note that it is generally necessary to override the hashCode method whenever this method is overridden, so as to maintain the general contract for the hashCode method, which states that equal objects must have equal hash codes.

get

public PropertyPath.PathSegment get (int index)

Returns the PathSegment at a specified index of the PropertyPath.

Calling get(1) on a PropertyPath representing "foo.bar[1]" will return a PathSegment representing "bar[1]". PathSegments both with and without a property index of PathSegment#NON_REPEATED_CARDINALITY are retrieved the same.

hashCode

public int hashCode ()

Returns a hash code value for the object. This method is supported for the benefit of hash tables such as those provided by HashMap.

The general contract of hashCode is:

• Whenever it is invoked on the same object more than once during an execution of a Java application, the hashCode method must consistently return the same integer, provided no information used in equals comparisons on the object is modified. This integer need not remain consistent from one execution of an application to another execution of the same application.
• If two objects are equal according to the equals(Object) method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce the same integer result.
• It is not required that if two objects are unequal according to the equals(java.lang.Object) method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce distinct integer results. However, the programmer should be aware that producing distinct integer results for unequal objects may improve the performance of hash tables.

As much as is reasonably practical, the hashCode method defined by class Object does return distinct integers for distinct objects. (The hashCode may or may not be implemented as some function of an object's memory address at some point in time.)

iterator

public Iterator<PropertyPath.PathSegment> iterator ()

Returns an iterator over the PathSegments within the PropertyPath

size

public int size ()

Returns the number of PathSegments in the PropertyPath.

Paths representing "foo.bar" and "foo[1].bar[1]" will have the same size, as a property and an index into that property are stored in one PathSegment.

toString

public String toString ()

Returns a valid path string representing this PropertyPath