com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.api.internal.types

Interface Canonicalizable

All Known Subinterfaces:

RDataType<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

RBoolean, RDateTime, RList, RNumber, RString, RTable

public interface Canonicalizable

Describes a value that can be represented with several string formats, one of which is considered canonical, and others are defined by masks.

Canonical representation is a completely unique representation of given value, that can be used to store a value in form of string, and reconstruct it back.

Mask is a description of string form that represents a value. Definition and interpretation of masks is considered a responsibility of implementing classes. Representations specified by masks are not guaranteed or required to be unique.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	toCanonicalRepresentation() Returns completely unique string representation with one-to-one correspondence to a value represented by this instance.
java.lang.String	toRepresentation(java.lang.CharSequence mask) Returns a string that represents this value according to user-provided mask.

Method Detail

toCanonicalRepresentation

java.lang.String toCanonicalRepresentation()

Returns completely unique string representation with one-to-one correspondence to a value represented by this instance.

Returns:

Canonical string representation of this value.

toRepresentation

java.lang.String toRepresentation(java.lang.CharSequence mask)

Returns a string that represents this value according to user-provided mask.

Parameters:

mask - is a rule by which value is converted to string.

Returns:

String representation of this value.