hep.io.hbook
Class CompositeHbookObject

java.lang.Object
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        +--hep.io.hbook.CompositeHbookObject

Direct Known Subclasses:

Tuple

public class CompositeHbookObject

extends HbookObject

An HbookObject which can have children. This class can represent either a directory in a hbook file, in which case the children will be the directory entries, or a tuple, in which case the children will be tuple columns.

Method Summary

HbookObject	getChild(int index) Get child by index
HbookObject	getChild(String name) Get an object by name.
Enumeration	getChildren() Get an enumeration of the children.
int	getIndex(String name) Get the index of a named object.
int	nChildren() Get the number of children
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class hep.io.hbook.HbookObject

getName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getChild

public final HbookObject getChild(int index)

Get child by index

Parameters:

index - The index of the object to retreive (0 to n-1)

getChild

public final HbookObject getChild(String name)

Get an object by name. For tuples the name is the column name.

getChildren

public Enumeration getChildren()

Get an enumeration of the children.

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

nChildren

public final int nChildren()

Get the number of children

getIndex

public final int getIndex(String name)

Get the index of a named object.