Package de.hsh.graja.comment.applicability

Class ApplicabilityFilterChain

java.lang.Object

de.hsh.graja.comment.applicability.ApplicabilityFilter

de.hsh.graja.comment.applicability.ApplicabilityFilterChain

All Implemented Interfaces:

IncludeInfo, Serializable

public class ApplicabilityFilterChain
extends ApplicabilityFilter

This class represents a chain of filters for artifacts with an applicability. This way we can realize AND combinations of filters.

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class de.hsh.graja.comment.applicability.ApplicabilityFilter

PASS_ALL

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ApplicabilityFilterChain()	Empty chain.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ApplicabilityFilterChain	chain(ApplicabilityFilter nextFilter)	Adds nextFilter to this filters chain.
boolean	passesThrough(Applicability applicability)	This method checks, whether an artifact with given applicability would pass the filter.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

ApplicabilityFilterChain

public ApplicabilityFilterChain()

Empty chain.

Method Details

chain

public ApplicabilityFilterChain chain(ApplicabilityFilter nextFilter)

Adds nextFilter to this filters chain.

Parameters:

nextFilter - a filter to be added to the chain.

Returns:

returns a reference to this object.

passesThrough

public boolean passesThrough(Applicability applicability)

This method checks, whether an artifact with given applicability would pass the filter. This is true, if it passes all filters of the chain.

Specified by:

passesThrough in class ApplicabilityFilter

Parameters:

applicability - the query applicability

Returns:

true, if an artifact with the given applicability would pass all filters in the chain.

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a string representation