rationals

Class DefaultStateFactory

java.lang.Object

rationals.DefaultStateFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

Cloneable, StateFactory

public class DefaultStateFactory
extends Object
implements StateFactory, Cloneable

This class is used by Automaton objects to create new states on A user can implement its own version of StateFactory by providing an implementation for createState

Version:

Thu Apr 25 2002

Author:

Arnaud.Bailly - bailly@lifl.fr

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	clone() Returns a new StateFactory object which is the same as this StateFactory.
State	create(boolean initial, boolean terminal)
Set<State>	stateSet() Return a new empty set that can contains State instances created by this factory.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

create

public State create(boolean initial,
                    boolean terminal)

Specified by:

create in interface StateFactory

Parameters:

initial - initial

terminal - terminal

Returns:

state

stateSet

public Set<State> stateSet()

Description copied from interface: StateFactory

Return a new empty set that can contains State instances created by this factory. This method is provided for optimisation purposes so that more efficient implementations than plain sets can be used for handling sets of states.

Specified by:

stateSet in interface StateFactory

Returns:

an - opaque - implementation of Set.

clone

public Object clone()
             throws CloneNotSupportedException

Description copied from interface: StateFactory

Returns a new StateFactory object which is the same as this StateFactory.

Specified by:

clone in interface StateFactory

Overrides:

clone in class Object

Returns:

an initialized StateFactory.

Throws:

CloneNotSupportedException - if clone not supported