org.semanticweb.elk.util.collections

Interface Operations.FunctorEx<I,O>

Type Parameters:

I - the type of input objects

O - the type of output objects

All Superinterfaces:

Operations.Functor<I,O>

Enclosing class:

Operations

public static interface Operations.FunctorEx<I,O>
extends Operations.Functor<I,O>

An extension of Operations.Functor which can do the reverse transformation

Author:

Pavel Klinov pavel.klinov@uni-ulm.de

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
I	deapply(Object element) The reason this method takes Objects rather than instances of O is because it's primarily used for an efficient implementation of Set.contains(Object), which takes an Object

Methods inherited from interface org.semanticweb.elk.util.collections.Operations.Functor

apply

Method Detail

deapply

I deapply(Object element)

The reason this method takes Objects rather than instances of O is because it's primarily used for an efficient implementation of Set.contains(Object), which takes an Object

Parameters:

element - the output element to be converted back to input

Returns:

Can return null if the transformation is not possible