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For breaking an object to compare into a sequence of comparable entities.
It is used by RangeDifferencer
to find longest sequences of
matching and non-matching ranges.
For example, to compare two text documents and find longest common sequences
of matching and non-matching lines, the implementation must break the document
into lines. getRangeCount
would return the number of lines in the
document, and rangesEqual
would compare a specified line given
with one in another IRangeComparator
.
Clients should implement this interface; there is no standard implementation.
Method Summary | |
int |
getRangeCount()
Returns the number of comparable entities. |
boolean |
rangesEqual(int thisIndex,
IRangeComparator other,
int otherIndex)
Returns whether the comparable entity given by the first index matches an entity specified by the other IRangeComparator and index. |
boolean |
skipRangeComparison(int length,
int maxLength,
IRangeComparator other)
Returns whether a comparison should be skipped because it would be too costly (or lengthy). |
Method Detail |
public int getRangeCount()
public boolean rangesEqual(int thisIndex, IRangeComparator other, int otherIndex)
IRangeComparator
and index.
thisIndex
- the index of the comparable entity within this IRangeComparator
other
- the IRangeComparator to compare this withotherIndex
- the index of the comparable entity within the other IRangeComparator
true
if the comparable entities are equalpublic boolean skipRangeComparison(int length, int maxLength, IRangeComparator other)
length
- a number on which to base the decision whether to return
true
or false
maxLength
- another number on which to base the decision whether to return
true
or false
other
- the other IRangeComparator
to compare with
true
to avoid a too lengthy range comparison
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