org.infai.emo.matcher.impl
Class ReferenceComparator

java.lang.Object
  org.infai.emo.matcher.Comparator
      org.infai.emo.matcher.ElementComparator
          org.infai.emo.matcher.impl.ReferenceComparator

public class ReferenceComparator
extends ElementComparator

Class for comparing the references of two elements.
This comparator needs a matching from a previous round for computing matching-values of the referenced elements.

Version:

1.1.2

Author:

Stanley Hillner

See Also:

ElementComparator

Constructor Summary

ReferenceComparator()

Method Summary

double

compareTo(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject leftElement, org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject rightElement) compare the references of the given elements.

Methods inherited from class org.infai.emo.matcher.Comparator

getName, setName, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ReferenceComparator

public ReferenceComparator()

Method Detail

compareTo

public double compareTo(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject leftElement,
                        org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject rightElement)

compare the references of the given elements. Therefore the comparator takes the matching-values of the referenced elements into account.

Specified by:

compareTo in class Comparator

Parameters:

leftElement - the left element of the comparison

rightElement - the right element of the comparison

Returns:

This method must return a double value between 0 and 1.0
1.0 stands for a total matching without any differences and 0 means that there are no commonalities.

See Also:

EObject