com.sleepycat.bind.tuple
Class SortedFloatBinding

java.lang.Object
  com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleBase<E>
      com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleBinding<Float>
          com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.SortedFloatBinding

All Implemented Interfaces:

EntryBinding<Float>

public class SortedFloatBinding
extends TupleBinding<Float>

A concrete TupleBinding for a Float primitive wrapper or a float primitive.

This class produces byte array values that by default (without a custom comparator) sort correctly, including sorting of negative values. Therefore, this class should normally be used instead of FloatBinding which does not by default support sorting of negative values. Please note that:

• The byte array (stored) formats used by FloatBinding and SortedFloatBinding are different and incompatible. They are not interchangeable once data has been stored.
• An instance of FloatBinding, not SortedFloatBinding, is returned by TupleBinding.getPrimitiveBinding(java.lang.Class) method. Therefore, to use SortedFloatBinding, TupleBinding.getPrimitiveBinding(java.lang.Class) should not be called.

There are two ways to use this class:

1. When using the com.sleepycat.db package directly, the static methods in this class can be used to convert between primitive values and DatabaseEntry objects.
2. When using the com.sleepycat.collections package, an instance of this class can be used with any stored collection.

Constructor Summary

SortedFloatBinding()

Method Summary

static float	entryToFloat(DatabaseEntry entry) Converts an entry buffer into a simple float value.
Float	entryToObject(TupleInput input) Constructs a key or data object from a TupleInput entry.
static void	floatToEntry(float val, DatabaseEntry entry) Converts a simple float value into an entry buffer.
void	objectToEntry(Float object, TupleOutput output) Converts a key or data object to a tuple entry.

Methods inherited from class com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleBinding

entryToObject, getPrimitiveBinding, objectToEntry

Methods inherited from class com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleBase

entryToInput, getTupleBufferSize, inputToEntry, newOutput, newOutput, outputToEntry, setTupleBufferSize

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SortedFloatBinding

public SortedFloatBinding()

Method Detail

entryToObject

public Float entryToObject(TupleInput input)

Description copied from class: TupleBinding

Constructs a key or data object from a TupleInput entry.

Specified by:

entryToObject in class TupleBinding<Float>

Parameters:

input - is the tuple key or data entry.

Returns:

the key or data object constructed from the entry.

objectToEntry

public void objectToEntry(Float object,
                          TupleOutput output)

Description copied from class: TupleBinding

Converts a key or data object to a tuple entry.

Specified by:

objectToEntry in class TupleBinding<Float>

Parameters:

object - is the key or data object.

output - is the tuple entry to which the key or data should be written.

entryToFloat

public static float entryToFloat(DatabaseEntry entry)

Converts an entry buffer into a simple float value.

Parameters:

entry - is the source entry buffer.

Returns:

the resulting value.

floatToEntry

public static void floatToEntry(float val,
                                DatabaseEntry entry)

Converts a simple float value into an entry buffer.

Parameters:

val - is the source value.

entry - is the destination entry buffer.