BasicEntity

public abstract class BasicEntity<T> extends Entity implements Iterable<T>

Infrastructure class to enable the inheriting classes type-safe access to instances.

Constructors

BasicEntity

BasicEntity(EntityBase impl)

Constructor

Methods

get

public abstract T get()

Get the instance corresponding to a scalar entity.

Throws:

• UnsupportedOperationException – if the entity is not scalar.
• IllegalStateException – if the entity has been deleted in the underlying AMPL interpreter

Returns:

The corresponding instance.

get

public abstract T get(Object... key)

Get the instance corresponding to the specified key. See Access to instances and values for further information on how the key can be specified.

Parameters:

• key – Key of the instance to be found.

Throws:

• IllegalArgumentException – if trying to access an instance with the wrong number of keys (see Entity.indexarity)
• IllegalStateException – if the entity has been deleted in the underlying AMPL interpreter

Returns:

The instance corresponding to the key, or null if the specified key is not found.

get

public abstract T get(Tuple key)

Get the instance corresponding to the specified tuple. See Access to instances and values for further information on how the key can be specified.

Parameters:

• key – Key (in form of Tuple) of the instance to be found.

Throws:

• IllegalArgumentException – if trying to access an instance with the wrong number of keys (see Entity.indexarity)
• IllegalStateException – if the entity has been deleted in the underlying AMPL interpreter

Returns:

The instance corresponding to the key, or null if the specified key is not found.

iterator

public abstract Iterator<T> iterator()