mondrian.rolap
Interface StarColumnPredicate

All Superinterfaces:

StarPredicate

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractColumnPredicate, ListColumnPredicate, LiteralStarPredicate, MemberColumnPredicate, MinusStarPredicate, RangeColumnPredicate, ValueColumnPredicate

public interface StarColumnPredicate
extends StarPredicate

Refinement of StarPredicate which constrains precisely one column.

Since:

Jan 15, 2007

Author:

jhyde

Nested Class Summary

static class

StarColumnPredicate.Overlap Returned by intersect(mondrian.rolap.StarColumnPredicate), describes whether two predicates overlap, and if so, the remaining predicate.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface mondrian.rolap.StarPredicate

WILDCARD

Method Summary

StarColumnPredicate	cloneWithColumn(RolapStar.Column column) This method is required because unfortunately some ColumnPredicate objects are created without a column.
boolean	evaluate(Object value) Returns whether this constraint would return true for a given value.
RolapStar.Column	getConstrainedColumn() Returns the column constrained by this predicate.
StarColumnPredicate.Overlap	intersect(StarColumnPredicate predicate) Applies this predicate to a predicate from the axis of a segment, and tests for overlap.
boolean	mightIntersect(StarPredicate other) Returns whether this predicate might intersect another predicate.
StarColumnPredicate	minus(StarPredicate predicate) Returns the logical inverse of this Predicate.
StarColumnPredicate	orColumn(StarColumnPredicate predicate) Returns this union of this Predicate with another.
void	values(Collection<Object> collection) Adds the values in this constraint to a collection.

Methods inherited from interface mondrian.rolap.StarPredicate

and, describe, equalConstraint, evaluate, getConstrainedColumnBitKey, getConstrainedColumnList, or, toSql

Method Detail

values

void values(Collection<Object> collection)

Adds the values in this constraint to a collection.

Parameters:

collection - Collection to add values to

evaluate

boolean evaluate(Object value)

Returns whether this constraint would return true for a given value.

Parameters:

value - Value

Returns:

Whether predicate is true

getConstrainedColumn

RolapStar.Column getConstrainedColumn()

Returns the column constrained by this predicate.

Returns:

Column constrained by this predicate.

intersect

StarColumnPredicate.Overlap intersect(StarColumnPredicate predicate)

Applies this predicate to a predicate from the axis of a segment, and tests for overlap. The result might be that there is no overlap, full overlap (so the constraint can be removed), or partial overlap (so the constraint will need to be replaced with a stronger constraint, say 'x > 10' is replaced with 'x > 20').

Parameters:

predicate - Predicate

Returns:

description of overlap between predicates, if any

mightIntersect

boolean mightIntersect(StarPredicate other)

Returns whether this predicate might intersect another predicate. That is, whether there might be a value which holds true for both constraints.

Parameters:

other - Other constraint

Returns:

Whether constraints intersect

minus

StarColumnPredicate minus(StarPredicate predicate)

Description copied from interface: StarPredicate

Returns the logical inverse of this Predicate. The result is a Predicate which holds whenever this predicate holds but the other does not.

Specified by:

minus in interface StarPredicate

Parameters:

predicate - Predicate

Returns:

Combined predicate

orColumn

StarColumnPredicate orColumn(StarColumnPredicate predicate)

Returns this union of this Predicate with another.

Unlike StarPredicate.or(mondrian.rolap.StarPredicate), the other predicate must be on this column, and the result is a column predicate.

Parameters:

predicate - Another predicate on this column

Returns:

Union predicate on this column

cloneWithColumn

StarColumnPredicate cloneWithColumn(RolapStar.Column column)

This method is required because unfortunately some ColumnPredicate objects are created without a column.

We call this method to provide a fake column, then call StarPredicate.toSql(mondrian.rolap.sql.SqlQuery, StringBuilder).

todo: remove this method when bug MONDRIAN-313 and bug MONDRIAN-314 are fixed.