y.layout.tree
Class NodeOrderComparator

java.lang.Object
  y.layout.tree.NodeOrderComparator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparator

public class NodeOrderComparator
extends Object
implements Comparator

This comparator compares edges by examining the Comparable that is obtained by passing the target nodes to the get method of the DataProvider bound to the graph via the NODE_ORDER_DPKEY key.

See Also:

TreeLayouter.setComparator(Comparator), GenericTreeLayouter.setDefaultChildComparator(Comparator), GenericTreeLayouter.CHILD_COMPARATOR_DPKEY, BalloonLayouter.setComparator(Comparator), ARTreeLayouter.setComparator(Comparator), HVTreeLayouter.setComparator(Comparator), NODE_ORDER_DPKEY

Field Summary

static Object

NODE_ORDER_DPKEY A data provider key that can be used to register a DataProvider for each Node in the graph that yields a Comparable object via the DataProvider.get(Object) method.

Constructor Summary

NodeOrderComparator()

Method Summary

int	compare(Object a, Object b) Object is actually expected to be Edge.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Comparator

equals

Field Detail

NODE_ORDER_DPKEY

public static final Object NODE_ORDER_DPKEY

A data provider key that can be used to register a DataProvider for each Node in the graph that yields a Comparable object via the DataProvider.get(Object) method. The values can be used by the various tree layouter implementations to sort the children of each node in the tree and use the order to influence the layout. To achieve this use this comparator and assign it to the layouter implementations comparator property.

Constructor Detail

NodeOrderComparator

public NodeOrderComparator()

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(Object a,
                   Object b)

Object is actually expected to be Edge. Compares values returned by DataProvider.get(Object) for the target nodes of the edges. null values or instances that do not implement the Comparable interface will be treated as (equal) smaller values.

Specified by:

compare in interface Comparator