ca.uhn.cache
Interface IDimension

All Known Implementing Classes:

Dimension

public interface IDimension

An axis of a IParamSpace, along which data are divided into IChunks.

Conceptually, a dimension may be continuous (e.g. time), or discrete (e.g. categories). This is reflected in the application parameter types (see getParamTypes()).

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ updated on $Date: 2005/01/24 22:52:08 $ by $Author: bryan_tripp $

Author:

Alexei Guevara, Bryan Tripp

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName()
java.lang.Class[]	getParamTypes()

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns:

the name of the dimension (unique within a space)

getParamTypes

public java.lang.Class[] getParamTypes()

Returns:

the types of the IQueryParams that are meaningful along this dimension