ewe.data
Interface DataUnit

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable, Copyable

All Known Subinterfaces:

EditableData, LiveData

All Known Implementing Classes:

DataObject, EditableObject, LiveObject

public interface DataUnit

extends Copyable, Comparable

A DataUnit encompasses a set of standard methods which are useful for small units of data. It extends Copyable and Comparable and in total provides the following methods:

 Object getNew();
 Object getCopy();
 void copyFrom(Object other);
 int compareTo(Object other);
 

Method Summary

void	copyFrom(Object other) Copy all appropriate data from another object.
Object	getNew() Return a new Object which is of the same class as the original.

Methods inherited from interface ewe.util.Copyable

getCopy

Methods inherited from interface ewe.util.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

getNew

public Object getNew()

Return a new Object which is of the same class as the original.

copyFrom

public void copyFrom(Object other)

Copy all appropriate data from another object.