gov.nih.nlm.umls.meta
Class AbstractExpandedForm

java.lang.Object
  gov.nih.nlm.umls.meta.AbstractExpandedForm

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparable, ExpandedForm

Direct Known Subclasses:

AdditionalRelationshipLabel, AttributeName, CoocurrenceType, Language, RelationshipLabel, SemanticTypeGroup, SourceIdentifierType, StringType, Suppressible, TermStatus, TermType, TermTypeGroup

public abstract class AbstractExpandedForm

extends Object

implements ExpandedForm

Abstract implementation of ExpandedForm providing equals, hashCode, toString, and compareTo methods to any descendents. All classes implementing ExpandedForm should probably extend this class instead.

Author:

Brian Carlsen, Deborah Shapiro

Constructor Summary

AbstractExpandedForm()

Method Summary

int	compareTo(Object o) Compares the given Object with this ExpandedForm.
boolean	equals(Object o) Compares the given Object with this ExpandedForm for equality.
int	hashCode() Return a hash code based on key fields.
String	toString() Return a string representation for an Object consisting of its subkey.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface gov.nih.nlm.umls.meta.ExpandedForm

getAbbreviation, getDescription

Constructor Detail

AbstractExpandedForm

public AbstractExpandedForm()

Method Detail

equals

public boolean equals(Object o)

Compares the given Object with this ExpandedForm for equality.

Parameters:

o - parameter to be compared to this ExpandedForm

Returns:

true if they are equal false otherwise

compareTo

public int compareTo(Object o)

Compares the given Object with this ExpandedForm.

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable

Parameters:

o - parameter to be compared to this ExpandedForm

Returns:

-1 if this object is less than the given Object parameter 0 if this object is equal to the given Object parameter 1 if this object is greater than the given Object parameter

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Return a hash code based on key fields.

Returns:

a hash code based on key fields

toString

public String toString()

Return a string representation for an Object consisting of its subkey.

Returns:

subkey