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com.sas.iquery.metadata.expr
Class DateValueExpression

com.sas.iquery.metadata.expr.DateValueExpression

All Implemented Interfaces:

Base, BusinessModelResourceReferencer, ModelItem, UsabilityInterface, ExpressionInterface, PropertyChangeListenee, java.beans.PropertyChangeListener, java.lang.Cloneable, java.util.EventListener

public final class DateValueExpression

Models date values while fitting into the SAS Query Services expression model by implementing the ExpressionInterface.

Date values stored within objects of this type are implicitly associated with the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) timezone. No explicit specification of a timezone is allowed or necessary. This behavior is consistent with the Java time-oriented values associated with the classes java.util.Date, java.sql.Date, java.sql.Time, and java.sql.Timestamp.

See the javadoc in the AbstractTimeValueExpression class for more information on timezones.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.sas.iquery.metadata.expr.AbstractTimeValueExpression

EVENT_VALUE_CHANGED

Fields inherited from interface com.sas.iquery.metadata.business.ModelItem

EVENT_OBJECT_PROPERTY_CHANGED

Fields inherited from interface com.sas.iquery.metadata.business.Base

EVENT_OBJECT_DEFINITION_CHANGED

Constructor Summary

DateValueExpression()
Creates a DateValueExpression object with no date value set.

DateValueExpression(java.sql.Date value)
Creates a DateValueExpression object with the specified Date value set.

DateValueExpression(java.util.Date dateValue)
Creates a DateValueExpression object and sets the date value stored within the object as the setValue(java.util.Date) method describes.

Method Summary

java.sql.Date	getDateValue() Returns the same as getValue() but as a more explicit type for this type of object.
int	getExpressionType() Returns the date expression type ExpressionTypes.EXP_TYPE_DATE
void	setDateValue(java.sql.Date value) Sets the date value within this object to the specified value.

Methods inherited from class com.sas.iquery.metadata.expr.AbstractTimeValueExpression

equals, generateQueryText, generateQueryText, getExplicitDoubleValue, getValue, newValue, setExplicitDoubleValue, setValue

Methods inherited from interface com.sas.iquery.metadata.business.BusinessModelResourceReferencer

getResources

Methods inherited from interface com.sas.iquery.metadata.PropertyChangeListenee

addListener, getListeners, removeListener

Methods inherited from interface com.sas.iquery.metadata.business.UsabilityInterface

getReasonsUnusable, isUsableInQuery

Constructor Detail

DateValueExpression

public DateValueExpression()

Creates a DateValueExpression object with no date value set.

DateValueExpression

public DateValueExpression(java.sql.Date value)

Creates a DateValueExpression object with the specified Date value set.

The value specified is copied into this object and no future changes to the specified value affect this object's stored value.

Parameters:

value - the value to set this object to or null

DateValueExpression

public DateValueExpression(java.util.Date dateValue)

Creates a DateValueExpression object and sets the date value stored within the object as the setValue(java.util.Date) method describes.

Method Detail

getDateValue

public java.sql.Date getDateValue()

Returns the same as getValue() but as a more explicit type for this type of object.

Returns:

java.sql.Date the date value stored in this object or null if none set

setDateValue

public void setDateValue(java.sql.Date value)

Sets the date value within this object to the specified value.

The value specified is copied into this object and no future changes to the specified value affect this object's stored value.

Parameters:

value - the value to set this object to.

getExpressionType

public int getExpressionType()

Returns the date expression type ExpressionTypes.EXP_TYPE_DATE

Returns:

an expression type from class ExpressionTypes

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