org.netbeans.modules.schema2beans

Class BeanComparator

java.lang.Object

org.netbeans.modules.schema2beans.BeanComparator

public class BeanComparator
extends Object

The class BeanComparator is the default comparator implementation for comparing and merging schema2beans graphs. This class has mainly two methods. One for deciding if two BaseBean objects are identicals and a second one to decide if two properties are identicals. These methods return either the original value to signal that they are the same or the second value, to signal that the two elements compared are not the same. This default implementation compares both the propertie and attribute values to decide for equality. This implementation also uses the key information that might be defined in the mdd file (see user doc for this file usage). If the key is specified (default is all properties are keys), then only the properties defined as keys are used during the comparison.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BeanComparator()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
BaseBean	compareBean(String beanName, BaseBean curBean, BaseBean newBean) Default comparison implementation for comparing two beans.
Object	compareProperty(String propertyName, BaseBean curBean, Object curValue, int curIndex, BaseBean newBean, Object newValue, int newIndex) Default comparison implementation for comparing two property values.
static void	enableComparatorsKey(boolean b)
void	enableKey(boolean b)
protected boolean	hasKey()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BeanComparator

public BeanComparator()

Method Detail

compareBean

public BaseBean compareBean(String beanName,
                            BaseBean curBean,
                            BaseBean newBean)

Default comparison implementation for comparing two beans. The two beans are considered identical if all its non-bean properties are identicals.

compareProperty

public Object compareProperty(String propertyName,
                              BaseBean curBean,
                              Object curValue,
                              int curIndex,
                              BaseBean newBean,
                              Object newValue,
                              int newIndex)

Default comparison implementation for comparing two property values.

Returns:

curValue if the same, newValue if different.

hasKey

protected boolean hasKey()

enableKey

public void enableKey(boolean b)

enableComparatorsKey

public static void enableComparatorsKey(boolean b)