com.sun.mdm.index.matching
Class MatcherImpl

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.mdm.index.matching.MatcherImpl

All Implemented Interfaces:

Matcher

public class MatcherImpl

extends java.lang.Object

implements Matcher

Impl class for Matcher. Loads and forwards requests to the adapter interface implementation configured.

Constructor Summary

MatcherImpl()
No argument constructor.

Method Summary

void	finalizer()
java.util.ArrayList	findWeights(SystemObject base, QueryResults block, MatchOptions matchOptions) Evaluate how closely the passed in SystemObject matches the database records in the passed in block by calculating the weights
(package private) MatcherAPI	getMatcherAPIImpl() Return a reference to the loaded and instantiated matcher API implementation instance
void	shutdown()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MatcherImpl

public MatcherImpl()
            throws java.lang.Exception

No argument constructor.

Method Detail

finalizer

public void finalizer()

findWeights

public java.util.ArrayList findWeights(SystemObject base,
                                       QueryResults block,
                                       MatchOptions matchOptions)
                                throws MatchingException

Evaluate how closely the passed in SystemObject matches the database records in the passed in block by calculating the weights

Specified by:

findWeights in interface Matcher

Parameters:

base - the SystemObject to match

block - the database block of records to match against

matchOptions - the options controlling the matching process

Returns:

an ArrayList of ScoreElements containing the EUID and associated match weights

Throws:

MatchingException - the matching process failed

getMatcherAPIImpl

MatcherAPI getMatcherAPIImpl()

Return a reference to the loaded and instantiated matcher API implementation instance

shutdown

public void shutdown()
              throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:

java.lang.Exception