com.metamatrix.query.sql.symbol
Class SingleElementSymbol

java.lang.Object
  com.metamatrix.query.sql.symbol.Symbol
      com.metamatrix.query.sql.symbol.SelectSymbol
          com.metamatrix.query.sql.symbol.SingleElementSymbol

All Implemented Interfaces:

LanguageObject, Expression, java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

Direct Known Subclasses:

AliasSymbol, ElementSymbol, ExpressionSymbol

public abstract class SingleElementSymbol
extends SelectSymbol
implements Expression

This is a subclass of Symbol representing a single output column.

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

SEPARATOR Character used to delimit name components in a symbol

Constructor Summary

	SingleElementSymbol(java.lang.String name) Construct a symbol with a name
protected	SingleElementSymbol(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String canonicalName) Passthrough constructor used for cloning

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getShortCanonicalName() Get the short name of the element
java.lang.String	getShortName() Get the short name of the element
static java.lang.String	getShortName(java.lang.String name)

Methods inherited from class com.metamatrix.query.sql.symbol.Symbol

clone, equals, getCanonical, getCanonicalName, getName, getOutputName, hashCode, isResolved, setName, setOutputName, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.metamatrix.query.sql.symbol.Expression

getType, isResolved

Methods inherited from interface com.metamatrix.query.sql.LanguageObject

acceptVisitor, clone

Field Detail

SEPARATOR

public static final java.lang.String SEPARATOR

Character used to delimit name components in a symbol

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

SingleElementSymbol

protected SingleElementSymbol(java.lang.String name,
                              java.lang.String canonicalName)

Passthrough constructor used for cloning

Parameters:

name -

canonicalName -

hashcode -

Since:

4.3

SingleElementSymbol

public SingleElementSymbol(java.lang.String name)

Construct a symbol with a name

Parameters:

name - Name of symbol

Method Detail

getShortName

public java.lang.String getShortName()

Get the short name of the element

Returns:

Short name of the symbol (un-dotted)

getShortName

public static java.lang.String getShortName(java.lang.String name)

getShortCanonicalName

public java.lang.String getShortCanonicalName()

Get the short name of the element

Returns:

Short name of the symbol (un-dotted)