com.beasys.commerce.foundation.expression
Interface Expression

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable, Comparable, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Criteria, Logical

All Known Implementing Classes:

CriteriaImpl, ExpressionImpl, LogicalImpl

Deprecated. Use Expression instead.

public interface Expression

extends Comparable, Cloneable, Serializable

An Expression represent a comparision expression.

The Expression interface is supposed to be abstract. The only instances of Expressions should be either Criterias or Logicals.

Attribute: not

• Containment: By Value
• Multiplicity: 1:1
• This specifies whether this is an negative expression or not.

See Also:

ExpressionHome, ExpressionImpl, ExpressionHelper

Method Summary

boolean	getNot() Deprecated. Get the value of not
String	interfaceName() Deprecated. Get the interface name.
void	setByValue(Object val) Deprecated. Set this object.
void	setNot(boolean not) Deprecated. Set the value of not
String	toString() Deprecated. Render the expression as a string.
Object	value() Deprecated. Get a value object initialized from this.
void	valueOf(String searchExpression) Deprecated. Populate this Expression from the specified expression string.

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

value

public Object value()

Deprecated.

Get a value object initialized from this.

setByValue

public void setByValue(Object val)

Deprecated.

Set this object.

interfaceName

public String interfaceName()

Deprecated.

Get the interface name.

getNot

public boolean getNot()

Deprecated.

Get the value of not

setNot

public void setNot(boolean not)

Deprecated.

Set the value of not

toString

public String toString()

Deprecated.

Render the expression as a string.

This will convert the expression to the query syntax form as specified by ExpressionHelper.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

See Also:

ExpressionHelper

valueOf

public void valueOf(String searchExpression)

Deprecated.

Populate this Expression from the specified expression string.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - thrown on an invalid expression string.

See Also:

ExpressionHelper.parse(java.lang.String)