1 /* 2 Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3 4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.0, 6 as published by the Free Software Foundation. 7 8 This program is also distributed with certain software (including 9 but not limited to OpenSSL) that is licensed under separate terms, 10 as designated in a particular file or component or in included license 11 documentation. The authors of MySQL hereby grant you an additional 12 permission to link the program and your derivative works with the 13 separately licensed software that they have included with MySQL. 14 15 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 16 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 17 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 18 GNU General Public License, version 2.0, for more details. 19 20 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 21 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 22 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA 23 */ 24 25 package com.mysql.clusterj.query; 26 27 /** PredicateOperand represents a column or parameter that can be compared to 28 * another 29 * 30 */ 31 public interface PredicateOperand { 32 33 /** Return a Predicate representing comparing this to another using 34 * "equal to" semantics. 35 * 36 * @param other the other PredicateOperand 37 * @return a new Predicate 38 */ equal(PredicateOperand other)39 Predicate equal(PredicateOperand other); 40 41 /** Return a Predicate representing comparing this to another using 42 * "greater than" semantics. 43 * 44 * @param other the other PredicateOperand 45 * @return a new Predicate 46 */ greaterThan(PredicateOperand other)47 Predicate greaterThan(PredicateOperand other); 48 49 /** Return a Predicate representing comparing this to another using 50 * "greater than or equal to" semantics. 51 * 52 * @param other the other PredicateOperand 53 * @return a new Predicate 54 */ greaterEqual(PredicateOperand other)55 Predicate greaterEqual(PredicateOperand other); 56 57 /** Return a Predicate representing comparing this to another using 58 * "less than" semantics. 59 * 60 * @param other the other PredicateOperand 61 * @return a new Predicate 62 */ lessThan(PredicateOperand other)63 Predicate lessThan(PredicateOperand other); 64 65 /** Return a Predicate representing comparing this to another using 66 * "less than or equal to" semantics. 67 * 68 * @param other the other PredicateOperand 69 * @return a new Predicate 70 */ lessEqual(PredicateOperand other)71 Predicate lessEqual(PredicateOperand other); 72 73 /** Return a Predicate representing comparing this to another using 74 * "between" semantics. 75 * 76 * @param lower another PredicateOperand 77 * @param upper another PredicateOperand 78 * @return a new Predicate 79 */ between(PredicateOperand lower, PredicateOperand upper)80 Predicate between(PredicateOperand lower, PredicateOperand upper); 81 82 /** Return a Predicate representing comparing this to a collection of 83 * values using "in" semantics. 84 * 85 * @param other another PredicateOperand 86 * @return a new Predicate 87 */ in(PredicateOperand other)88 Predicate in(PredicateOperand other); 89 90 /** Return a Predicate representing comparing this to another using 91 * "like" semantics. 92 * 93 * @param other another PredicateOperand 94 * @return a new Predicate 95 */ like(PredicateOperand other)96 Predicate like(PredicateOperand other); 97 98 } 99