org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.query
Class FilterOrTerm

java.lang.Object
  org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.query.FilterTerm
      org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.query.FilterOrTerm

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, FilterCriterion

public final class FilterOrTerm
extends FilterTerm

Convenience class providing smoother handling of OR filter terms.

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

rsauer

See Also:

or(org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.query.FilterCriterion), Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.query.FilterTerm

FilterTerm.Kind

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.query.FilterTerm

AND, OR

Method Summary

FilterOrTerm

or(FilterCriterion filter) Convenience method for adding another filter criterion to this OR term, especially useful for chained calls like term.or(A).or(B).

Methods inherited from class org.eclipse.stardust.engine.api.query.FilterTerm

accept, add, addAndTerm, addOrTerm, getKind, getParts

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

or

public FilterOrTerm or(FilterCriterion filter)
                throws UnsupportedFilterException

Convenience method for adding another filter criterion to this OR term, especially useful for chained calls like term.or(A).or(B).

Parameters:

filter - The filter criterion to be added.

Returns:

this to allow for chained calls.

Throws:

UnsupportedFilterException - if the filter criterion to be added is not valid for thes query this filter term belongs to