/* XXL: The eXtensible and fleXible Library for data processing
Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Prof. Dr. Bernhard Seeger
Head of the Database Research Group
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Marburg
Germany
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
http://code.google.com/p/xxl/
*/
package xxl.core.predicates;
/**
* This class provides a binary predicate that determines whether two given
* arguments have the same reference. The <code>invoke</code> method of the
* predicate simply uses the binary equality operator <code>==</code>.
*
* @param <P> the type of the predicate's parameters.
*/
public class EqualReference<P> extends AbstractPredicate<P> {
/**
* This instance can be used for getting a default instance of
* EqualReference. It is similar to the <i>Singleton Design Pattern</i>
* (for further details see Creational Patterns, Prototype in <i>Design
* Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software</i> by Erich
* Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides) except that
* there are no mechanisms to avoid the creation of other instances of
* EqualReference.
*/
public static final EqualReference<Object> DEFAULT_INSTANCE = new EqualReference<Object>();
/**
* Returns whether the given arguments have the same reference or not. In
* other words, returns <code>true</code> if both arguments are equal using
* the binary equality operator <code>==</code>. The exact implementation
* is
* <code><pre>
* return argument0==argument1;
* </pre></code>
*
* @param argument0 the first argument to the predicate.
* @param argument1 the second argument to the predicate.
* @return <code>true</code> if the given arguments have the same
* reference, otherwise <code>false</code>.
*/
@Override
public boolean invoke(P argument0, P argument1) {
return argument0 == argument1;
}
}