net.sourceforge.javamatch.query
Class NotQuery

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.javamatch.query.MatchQuery
      net.sourceforge.javamatch.query.NotQuery

public class NotQuery

extends MatchQuery

Class NotQuery is a query that negates the match result of the underlying query

Constructor Summary

NotQuery(MatchQuery nestedQuery)
Creates a new NotQuery-query, that negates the given nested query

Method Summary

float

getMatchValue(java.lang.Object targetObject) Returns the match value of this match query, when executed on the given object.

Methods inherited from class net.sourceforge.javamatch.query.MatchQuery

getObjectValue, isTwoPass, prePass

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NotQuery

public NotQuery(MatchQuery nestedQuery)

Creates a new NotQuery-query, that negates the given nested query

Parameters:

nestedQuery - the query of which the result is negated

Method Detail

getMatchValue

public float getMatchValue(java.lang.Object targetObject)
                    throws MatchException

Returns the match value of this match query, when executed on the given object.

Specified by:

getMatchValue in class MatchQuery

Parameters:

targetObject - the object agains which the query is executed

Returns:

A value between 0 and 1, both inclusive, that indicates how good the object matches this query. 0 means a mismatch, 1 means a full match

Throws:

MatchException - when the value could not be retrieved