Package org.cqframework.cql.elm.execution

Class Expand

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons.lang.Equals2, org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons.lang.HashCode2, org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons.lang.ToString2
    Direct Known Subclasses:
    ExpandEvaluator
    public class Expand
extends BinaryExpression
implements org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons.lang.Equals2, org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons.lang.HashCode2, org.jvnet.jaxb2_commons.lang.ToString2
    The Expand operator returns the set of intervals of size per for all the ranges present in the given list of intervals, or the list of points covering the range of the given interval, if invoked on a single interval. The per argument determines the size of the resulting intervals and must be a quantity-valued expression compatible with the interval point type. For numeric intervals, this means a quantity with the default unit '1' (not to be confused with the quantity value, which may be any valid positive decimal). For Date-, DateTime-, and Time-valued intervals, this means a quantity with a temporal unit (e.g., 'year', 'month', etc). Conceptually, the per argument to the expand operator partitions the value-space for the operation into units of size 'per', and the intervals will be expanded aligning with those partitions. Note that the 'per' partitions start from the starting boundary of the first input interval, ordered. If the per argument is null, a per value will be constructed based on the coarsest precision of the boundaries of the intervals in the input set. For example, a list of DateTime-based intervals where the boundaries are a mixture of hours and minutes will expand at the hour precision. Note that if the values in the intervals are more precise than the per quantity, the more precise values will be truncated to the precision specified by the per quantity. If the input argument is an interval, rather than a list of intervals, the result is a list of points, rather than a list of intervals. In this case, the calculation is performed the same way, but the starting point of each resulting interval is returned, rather than the interval. If the list of intervals is empty, the result is empty. If the list of intervals contains nulls, they will be excluded from the resulting list. If the source argument is null, the result is null.

    Java class for Expand complex type.

    The following schema fragment specifies the expected content contained within this class. 

     <complexType name="Expand">
   <complexContent>
     <extension base="{urn:hl7-org:elm:r1}BinaryExpression">
     </extension>
   </complexContent>
 </complexType>