sofya.mutator
Class StandardMutationTable

java.lang.Object
  sofya.mutator.MutationTable
      sofya.mutator.StandardMutationTable

public class StandardMutationTable
extends MutationTable

A standard in-memory mutation table.

Large mutation tables may cause resource consumption problems.

Version:

10/03/2005

Author:

Alex Kinneer

Constructor Summary

StandardMutationTable()
Creates a new mutation table.

StandardMutationTable(StringTable st)
Creates a new mutation table.

Method Summary

boolean	addMutation(Mutation m) Adds a mutation to this mutation table.
StringTable	getStringTable() Gets the string table that may be used to compact strings in the mutation table (optional operation).
java.util.Iterator	iterator() Gets an iterator over the mutations stored in this mutation table (optional operation).
int	size() Gets the size of this mutation table.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StandardMutationTable

public StandardMutationTable()

Creates a new mutation table.

StandardMutationTable

public StandardMutationTable(StringTable st)

Creates a new mutation table.

Parameters:

st - String table to be used/extended when adding new mutations to this table. Supports persistence of string encodings if this table was previously read from file.

Method Detail

addMutation

public boolean addMutation(Mutation m)

Description copied from class: MutationTable

Adds a mutation to this mutation table.

Specified by:

addMutation in class MutationTable

Parameters:

m - Mutation to be added to this table.

Returns:

true if the mutation was successfully added to this table.

iterator

public java.util.Iterator iterator()

Description copied from class: MutationTable

Gets an iterator over the mutations stored in this mutation table (optional operation).

Specified by:

iterator in class MutationTable

Returns:

An iterator over the mutations in this mutation table.

size

public int size()

Description copied from class: MutationTable

Gets the size of this mutation table.

Specified by:

size in class MutationTable

Returns:

The number of mutations stored in this mutation table.

getStringTable

public StringTable getStringTable()

Description copied from class: MutationTable

Gets the string table that may be used to compact strings in the mutation table (optional operation).

In some situations, this method assists in supporting persistence between file reads and writes. Implementations that do not wish to support this functionality should return null.

Specified by:

getStringTable in class MutationTable

Returns:

The string table used to compact strings in the mutation table.