uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.xml.functions
Class GenerateElemUID

java.lang.Object
  extended by uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.qproc.functions.BuiltInFunction
      extended by uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.xml.functions.GenerateElemUID

public class GenerateElemUID
extends BuiltInFunction

Function that produces element UIDs based on the two arguments passed to the function.

The first argument is a string representing the SID of the element (the SID is of the form <elementName>$count_sid).

The second argument is an ASG representing a list; the function will create as many element UIDs as the size of the list.

Author:
Lucas Zamboulis

Field Summary
 
Fields inherited from class uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.qproc.functions.BuiltInFunction
arity, logger, typeList
 
Constructor Summary
GenerateElemUID()
           
 
Method Summary
 Cell perform(Cell[] args, Evaluator e)
           
 
Methods inherited from class uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.qproc.functions.BuiltInFunction
finalize, getArity, getTypeList
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

GenerateElemUID

public GenerateElemUID()
                throws ParseException
Throws:
ParseException
Method Detail

perform

public Cell perform(Cell[] args,
                    Evaluator e)
             throws TypeException,
                    QProcException
Specified by:
perform in class BuiltInFunction
Returns:
a Cell object that is the root of a graph that represents the result of applying the built-in function to the arguments args. Uses the Evaluator e to evaluate any sub-queries that need to be evaluated.
Throws:
TypeException
QProcException