Package ch.grengine.source

Interface Source

All Known Subinterfaces:

FileSource, TextSource, UrlSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseSource, DefaultFileSource, DefaultTextSource, DefaultUrlSource

public interface Source

Interface for a (Groovy script) source.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Alain Stalder, Made in Switzerland.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	equals(Object obj)	two sources are equal if and only if their source IDs are equal.
String	getId()	gets the unique ID of this source.
long	getLastModified()	gets the date and time the source was last recognized to have been modified, in milliseconds since 1970.
int	hashCode()	returns the hash code of the source ID.
String	toString()	returns a string suitable for logging.

Method Details

getId

String getId()

gets the unique ID of this source.

Returns:

ID

Since:

1.0

getLastModified

long getLastModified()

gets the date and time the source was last recognized to have been modified, in milliseconds since 1970.

You should not rely on this number to increase monotonically or even to represent an actual date and time, but instead consider the source changed each time this method returns a different value.

Returns:

last modified

Since:

1.0

equals

boolean equals(Object obj)

two sources are equal if and only if their source IDs are equal.

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Returns:

whether the two sources are equal

Since:

1.0

hashCode

int hashCode()

returns the hash code of the source ID.

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

Returns:

hash code of the source ID

Since:

1.0

toString

String toString()

returns a string suitable for logging.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a string suitable for logging

Since:

1.0