edu.umich.soar.hpp
Class HPPConstraint

java.lang.Object
  edu.umich.soar.hpp.HPPConstraint

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<HPPConstraint>

Direct Known Subclasses:

HPPBinaryConstraint

public class HPPConstraint
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.lang.Comparable<HPPConstraint>

Qualitative constraint - name/value combination

Constructor Summary

HPPConstraint(HPPVariable variable, java.lang.String value)
Utility constructor - takes the name of an existing variable

HPPConstraint(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value)
Basic constructor

Method Summary

int	compareTo(HPPConstraint o)
java.lang.String	getName() Supports read-only access to the constraint name
java.lang.String	getValue() Supports read-only access to the constraint value
boolean	satisfiedBy(java.lang.String varName, java.lang.String varValue) Utility function to perform qualitative equivalence test
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HPPConstraint

public HPPConstraint(java.lang.String name,
                     java.lang.String value)

Basic constructor

Parameters:

name - constraint name

value - constraint value

HPPConstraint

public HPPConstraint(HPPVariable variable,
                     java.lang.String value)

Utility constructor - takes the name of an existing variable

Parameters:

variable - source of constraint name

value - constraint value

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Supports read-only access to the constraint name

Returns:

constraint name

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

Supports read-only access to the constraint value

Returns:

constraint value

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

satisfiedBy

public boolean satisfiedBy(java.lang.String varName,
                           java.lang.String varValue)

Utility function to perform qualitative equivalence test

Parameters:

varName - variable name

varValue - variable value

Returns:

true if both name and value are equal to constraint name/value

compareTo

public int compareTo(HPPConstraint o)

Specified by:

compareTo in interface java.lang.Comparable<HPPConstraint>