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You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple; import java.io.Serializable; import org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils; import org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.CompareToBuilder; /** * <p>A triple consisting of three elements.</p> * * <p>This class is an abstract implementation defining the basic API. * It refers to the elements as 'left', 'middle' and 'right'.</p> * * <p>Subclass implementations may be mutable or immutable. * However, there is no restriction on the type of the stored objects that may be stored. * If mutable objects are stored in the triple, then the triple itself effectively becomes mutable.</p> * * @param <L> the left element type * @param <M> the middle element type * @param <R> the right element type * * @version $Id$ * @since 3.2 */ public abstract class Triple<L, M, R> implements Comparable<Triple<L, M, R>>, Serializable { /** Serialization version */ private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; /** * <p>Obtains an immutable triple of from three objects inferring the generic types.</p> * * <p>This factory allows the triple to be created using inference to * obtain the generic types.</p> * * @param <L> the left element type * @param <M> the middle element type * @param <R> the right element type * @param left the left element, may be null * @param middle the middle element, may be null * @param right the right element, may be null * @return a triple formed from the three parameters, not null */ public static <L, M, R> Triple<L, M, R> of(final L left, final M middle, final R right) { return new ImmutableTriple<L, M, R>(left, middle, right); } //----------------------------------------------------------------------- /** * <p>Gets the left element from this triple.</p> * * @return the left element, may be null */ public abstract L getLeft(); /** * <p>Gets the middle element from this triple.</p> * * @return the middle element, may be null */ public abstract M getMiddle(); /** * <p>Gets the right element from this triple.</p> * * @return the right element, may be null */ public abstract R getRight(); //----------------------------------------------------------------------- /** * <p>Compares the triple based on the left element, followed by the middle element, * finally the right element. * The types must be {@code Comparable}.</p> * * @param other the other triple, not null * @return negative if this is less, zero if equal, positive if greater */ @Override public int compareTo(final Triple<L, M, R> other) { return new CompareToBuilder().append(getLeft(), other.getLeft()).append(getMiddle(), other.getMiddle()) .append(getRight(), other.getRight()).toComparison(); } /** * <p>Compares this triple to another based on the three elements.</p> * * @param obj the object to compare to, null returns false * @return true if the elements of the triple are equal */ @SuppressWarnings("deprecation") // ObjectUtils.equals(Object, Object) has been deprecated in 3.2 @Override public boolean equals(final Object obj) { if (obj == this) { return true; } if (obj instanceof Triple<?, ?, ?>) { final Triple<?, ?, ?> other = (Triple<?, ?, ?>) obj; return ObjectUtils.equals(getLeft(), other.getLeft()) && ObjectUtils.equals(getMiddle(), other.getMiddle()) && ObjectUtils.equals(getRight(), other.getRight()); } return false; } /** * <p>Returns a suitable hash code.</p> * * @return the hash code */ @Override public int hashCode() { return (getLeft() == null ? 0 : getLeft().hashCode()) ^ (getMiddle() == null ? 0 : getMiddle().hashCode()) ^ (getRight() == null ? 0 : getRight().hashCode()); } /** * <p>Returns a String representation of this triple using the format {@code ($left,$middle,$right)}.</p> * * @return a string describing this object, not null */ @Override public String toString() { return new StringBuilder().append('(').append(getLeft()).append(',').append(getMiddle()).append(',') .append(getRight()).append(')').toString(); } /** * <p>Formats the receiver using the given format.</p> * * <p>This uses {@link java.util.Formattable} to perform the formatting. Three variables may * be used to embed the left and right elements. Use {@code %1$s} for the left * element, {@code %2$s} for the middle and {@code %3$s} for the right element. * The default format used by {@code toString()} is {@code (%1$s,%2$s,%3$s)}.</p> * * @param format the format string, optionally containing {@code %1$s}, {@code %2$s} and {@code %3$s}, not null * @return the formatted string, not null */ public String toString(final String format) { return String.format(format, getLeft(), getMiddle(), getRight()); } }