Class SimpleUnit
- All Implemented Interfaces:
Comparable<OneUnit>
- Direct Known Subclasses:
SimpleBinaryUnit
,SimpleDecimalUnit
This represents the abstract unit, shorn of the symbols which were parsed to obtain it. Thus if, in some odd syntax, the symbol 'x' were used to denote metres, then the SimpleUnit instance which resulted would be the same as the OneUnit which resulted from a more conventional syntax.
Also, there is a potential ambiguity if a symbol is recognised
in one syntax, but not in another. Thus if the string 'erg' were
parsed in a syntax which didn't recognise that, then it would be
stored as just that, an unrecognised symbol, not associated with
the UnitDefinition
for the erg. Similarly, if a unit is
parsed with guessing, then we may encounter a unit which is recognised
in the sense of OneUnit.isRecognisedUnit()
, but not
in the sense of OneUnit.isRecognisedUnit(Syntax)
.
The class's instances are immutable.
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionint
boolean
Two units are equal if they have the same power, units and exponent.Returns the known base unit.Returns the name of this unit.Return the dimensions of the unit, if it is a recognised one.Obtains the representation of the unit, as it originally appeared in the parsed input.int
Returns the prefix of the unit, as a base-ten log.int
hashCode()
boolean
Indicates whether the base unit is one of those recognised in any syntax.boolean
isRecognisedUnit
(Syntax syntax) Indicates whether the base unit is one of those recognised within the specification of the given syntax.boolean
isRecommendedUnit
(Syntax syntax) Indicates whether the base unit is one of those recommended within the specification of the given syntax.boolean
satisfiesUsageConstraints
(Syntax syntax) Indicates whether the unit is being used in a way which satisfies any usage constraints.Write out the unit in a testable format.toString()
Format this unit in readable form.Format this unit in readable form, appropriate to the given syntax.Obtains the string form of the unit, including prefix, with a default syntax.unitString
(Syntax syntax) Obtains the string representation of the unit, including prefix, in the given syntax.Methods inherited from class uk.me.nxg.unity.OneUnit
divide, getExponent, isQuoted, reciprocate, wasGuessed
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Method Details
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getPrefix
public int getPrefix()Returns the prefix of the unit, as a base-ten log. Thus a prefix of "m", for "milli", would produce a prefix of -3. -
toString
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Format this unit in readable form. The form is unspecified.This should not generally be used for formatted output – for that, it will more often be better to use
UnitExpr.toString()
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toString
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Format this unit in readable form, appropriate to the given syntax. The form is unspecified.This should not generally be used for formatted output – for that, it will more often be better to use
UnitExpr.toString()
.- Specified by:
toString
in classOneUnit
- Parameters:
syntax
- one of the known syntaxes- Returns:
- a string representation of the unit
- Throws:
UnwritableExpression
- if the unit can't be written in the given syntax
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unitString
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Obtains the string representation of the unit, including prefix, in the given syntax. That is, return ‘mm’ not ‘m’ or ‘metre’. If a unit has more than one representation in a given syntax, then this will produced the ‘preferred one’.This will fail, with a UnitParserException, in the rare cases where the unit string is inexpressible in the given syntax: for example the CDS syntax permits only the log function to be applied to a unit, and will fail if it is asked to display a different function.
- Specified by:
unitString
in classOneUnit
- Parameters:
syntax
- one of the syntaxes ofSyntax
- Returns:
- a non-null string representation of the unit
- Throws:
UnwritableExpression
- if the unit string is inexpressible in the given syntax
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getBaseUnitDefinition
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Returns the known base unit. If the unit wasn't recognised as a known unit in the syntax in which the string was parsed, then this returns null, thoughOneUnit.getBaseUnitName()
will not.Note that the ‘base unit’ is simply the unit without the prefix, and doesn't refer to the fundamental SI base units. Thus in the expression
"MW"
, it is ‘W’, Watt, that is the base unit.- Specified by:
getBaseUnitDefinition
in classOneUnit
- Returns:
- a base unit
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getBaseUnitName
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Returns the name of this unit. If the unit is a known one, then this will return a name for the unit such as ‘Metre’, or ‘Julian year’; if it is not, then this can do no more than return the unit symbol.This should be used for identification or similar purposes. To write out the unit you should generally use
UnitExpr.toString()
.- Specified by:
getBaseUnitName
in classOneUnit
- Returns:
- the string name of this unit
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getBaseUnitString
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getDimensions
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Return the dimensions of the unit, if it is a recognised one. If this isn't a recognised unit, return null.- Specified by:
getDimensions
in classOneUnit
- Returns:
- the dimensions of the unit, or null if these aren't avaiable
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getOriginalUnitString
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Obtains the representation of the unit, as it originally appeared in the parsed input. This will differ from what is produced byunitString
if (a) the original was a dispreferred representation of a recognised unit (for example ‘yr’ vs ‘a’), or (b) if the unit was (successfully) guessed from an otherwise unrecognised string.- Specified by:
getOriginalUnitString
in classOneUnit
- Returns:
- the original input representation of the unit
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unitString
Obtains the string form of the unit, including prefix, with a default syntax. That is, return 'mm' not 'm'.The default syntax is (currently) the syntax with which this unit was originally read.
- Returns:
- a string representation of the unit
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isRecognisedUnit
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Indicates whether the base unit is one of those recognised within the specification of the given syntax. In this context, ‘recognised’ means ‘mentioned in the specification’, so deprecated units count as recognised ones.Note that this checks that the unit is a recognised one: we don't (currently) check whether the abbreviation that got us here is a recommended one (for example, ‘pixel’ is a valid FITS/CDS name for pixels, and ‘pix’ is a FITS and OGIP one). This also means that if we guessed a unit, and that unit is a recognised one in this syntax, then this method returns true.
If the syntax is Syntax.ALL, then this checks whether this is a recognised unit in any syntax.
- Specified by:
isRecognisedUnit
in classOneUnit
- Parameters:
syntax
- one of the syntaxes ofSyntax
- Returns:
- true if the unit is recognised
- See Also:
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isRecognisedUnit
public boolean isRecognisedUnit()Description copied from class:OneUnit
Indicates whether the base unit is one of those recognised in any syntax.This is equivalent to
isRecognisedUnit(Syntax.ALL)
. If this method returns true, thenOneUnit.getBaseUnitDefinition()
would return non-null, and vice versa if this method returns false.- Specified by:
isRecognisedUnit
in classOneUnit
- Returns:
- true if the unit is recognised
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isRecommendedUnit
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Indicates whether the base unit is one of those recommended within the specification of the given syntax. In this context, ‘recommended’ means ‘mentioned in the specification’ and not deprecated. Thus all ‘recommended’ units are also a fortiori ‘recognised’.Note that this checks that the unit is a recommended one: we don't (currently) check whether the abbreviation that got us here is a recommended one (for example, "pixel" is a valid FITS/CDS name for pixels, and "pix" is a FITS and OGIP one). This also means that if we guessed a unit, and that unit is a recommended one in this syntax, then this method returns true.
- Specified by:
isRecommendedUnit
in classOneUnit
- Parameters:
syntax
- one of the syntaxes ofSyntax
- Returns:
- true if the unit is a recommended one
- See Also:
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satisfiesUsageConstraints
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Indicates whether the unit is being used in a way which satisfies any usage constraints. Principally, this tests whether a unit which may not be used with SI prefixes was provided with a prefix, but there may be other constraints present.An unrecognised unit has no constraints, and so will always satisfy them; this extends to units which are unrecognised in a particular syntax.
- Specified by:
satisfiesUsageConstraints
in classOneUnit
- Parameters:
syntax
- one of the syntaxes ofSyntax
- Returns:
- true if the unit satisfies its usage constraints
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toDebugString
Description copied from class:OneUnit
Write out the unit in a testable format. This is for debugging and testing.- Specified by:
toDebugString
in classOneUnit
- Returns:
- a string representation of the unit
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equals
Two units are equal if they have the same power, units and exponent. They don't have to have been obtained from the same syntax, so that in a syntax which (for example) permitted both "yr" and "a" for years, two SimpleUnit instances, obtained from parsing the two alternatives, would be regarded as equal. -
compareTo
- Specified by:
compareTo
in interfaceComparable<OneUnit>
- Specified by:
compareTo
in classOneUnit
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hashCode
public int hashCode()
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