com.rubecula.darwin.foundation
Class MutableValuable

java.lang.Object
  com.rubecula.darwin.foundation.MutableValuable

All Implemented Interfaces:

Valuable, net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable

public class MutableValuable
extends java.lang.Object
implements Valuable

Author:

Robin Hillyard TODO consider using MutableDouble instead.

Constructor Summary

MutableValuable(double value)

MutableValuable(java.lang.Number value)

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getIdentifier()
java.lang.Number	getValue() Get the value which we can use to compare this object with other Valuable objects, for example in conjunction with Best interface.
void	scaleValue(double factor)
void	scaleValue(java.lang.Number factor)
void	setValue(double value) Reset the value according to the value of Number.doubleValue()
void	setValue(java.lang.Number value) Reset the value according to the value of Number.doubleValue()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MutableValuable

public MutableValuable(double value)

Parameters:

value - XXX

MutableValuable

public MutableValuable(java.lang.Number value)

Parameters:

value - XXX

Method Detail

getIdentifier

public java.lang.String getIdentifier()

Specified by:

getIdentifier in interface net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable

See Also:

Identifiable.getIdentifier()

getValue

public java.lang.Number getValue()
                          throws ValueException

Description copied from interface: Valuable

Get the value which we can use to compare this object with other Valuable objects, for example in conjunction with Best interface. NOTE: that this method gets called a lot. Therefore, if invoking it requires a significant amount of work, the Valuable implementation should consider caching the value.

Specified by:

getValue in interface Valuable

Returns:

the value for this object which will be used to determine which is the "best".

Throws:

ValueException

See Also:

Valuable.getValue()

scaleValue

public void scaleValue(double factor)

Parameters:

factor -

scaleValue

public void scaleValue(java.lang.Number factor)

Parameters:

factor -

setValue

public void setValue(double value)

Reset the value according to the value of Number.doubleValue()

Parameters:

value -

setValue

public void setValue(java.lang.Number value)

Reset the value according to the value of Number.doubleValue()

Parameters:

value -