com.bolour.sample.eclipse.service.exponentiation
Class Exponentiation

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.bolour.sample.eclipse.service.exponentiation.Exponentiation

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.eclipse.core.runtime.IExecutableExtension, IFunction

public class Exponentiation

extends java.lang.Object

implements IFunction, org.eclipse.core.runtime.IExecutableExtension

Callback class for exponentiation functions.

This class provides a generic exponentiation function. A particular instance of this class is parameterized by a specific exponent to be used by that instance in exponentiation. The exponent is provided to this instance via an XML attribute called constant in its extension specification.

Because this class implementes the IExecutableExtension interface, the standard callback creation method of Eclipse, namely IConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension knows to initialize a created instance of the class by calling the IExecutableExtension method setInitializationData. This method extracts the value of the constant attribute and initializes the instance with its integer value as the exponent for later computations.

Author:

Azad

Constructor Summary

Exponentiation()

Method Summary

long	compute(long x) Implementation of the exponentiation operation.
void	setInitializationData(org.eclipse.core.runtime.IConfigurationElement member, java.lang.String propertyName, java.lang.Object data) Initialization method for instances of Exponentiation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

, clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Exponentiation

public Exponentiation()

Method Detail

compute

public long compute(long x)

Implementation of the exponentiation operation.

Specified by:

compute in interface IFunction

Following copied from interface: com.bolour.sample.eclipse.service.ui.IFunction

Parameters:

x - A long integer input argument.

Returns:

The result of the callback function.

Throws:

java.lang.ArithmeticException - In case of an error.

setInitializationData

public void setInitializationData(org.eclipse.core.runtime.IConfigurationElement member,
                                  java.lang.String propertyName,
                                  java.lang.Object data)
                           throws org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException

Initialization method for instances of Exponentiation. The exponent for this particular listener is provided in the constant XML attribute of its extension element. Extract the exponent and remember it for use in later computations.

Specified by:

setInitializationData in interface org.eclipse.core.runtime.IExecutableExtension

See Also:

IExecutableExtension.setInitializationData(org.eclipse.core.runtime.IConfigurationElement, java.lang.String, java.lang.Object)