IHierarchicalCategoryAccessAdapter< T extends IHierarchicalCategory > Interface Reference

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Detailed Description

An access adapter for IHierarchicalCategory-annotations.
Note: This interface contains an IAccessAdapterTest which can be run by Tesla's JUnit-Component. Developers who re-implement this interface should run this component to validate their implementation.

Author:

sschwieb

Parameters:

<T>	a sub interface of IHierarchicalCategory, or IHierarchicalCategory itself.

Classes
class	AdapterTest
Public Methods
List< Annotation< T > >	getCategoriesByValues (Range range, Order order, int minSubCategoryMatches, String mainCategory, String...subCategories)

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Method Details

List<Annotation<T> > getCategoriesByValues	(	Range	range,
		Order	order,
		int	minSubCategoryMatches,
		String	mainCategory,
		String...	subCategories
	)

Returns all annotations which match the given Range, sorted by Order, which match the given mainCategory such that IHierarchicalCategory#getCategory().equals(mainCategory) and which further match the given categories via IHierarchicalCategory#getSubCategories().contains(category). If at least minMatches of the subCategories of an annotation match, the annotation is returned. If mainCategory isnull, only subCategories are analyzed. If range is null, all annotations of all signals are returned. If order is null, the order of the returned elements is unspecified. If no matching annotations were found, an empty list is returned. Never returns null.

Parameters:

range	the range to search in
order	the order of the returned elements
categories	the list of categories to search

Returns:

the list of matching annotations