All Known Subinterfaces:

AppendableRowsAndColumns

All Known Implementing Classes:

AppendableMapOfColumns, ArrayListRowsAndColumns, ConcatRowsAndColumns, EmptyRowsAndColumns, FrameRowsAndColumns, LazilyDecoratedRowsAndColumns, LimitedRowsAndColumns, MapOfColumnsRowsAndColumns, QueryableIndexRowsAndColumns, RearrangedRowsAndColumns
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public interface RowsAndColumns
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An interface representing a chunk of RowsAndColumns. Essentially a RowsAndColumns is just a batch of rows with columns.
This interface has very little prescriptively defined about what *must* be implemented. This is intentional as there are lots of different possible representations of batch of rows each with their own unique positives and negatives when it comes to processing. So, any explicit definition of what a RowsAndColumns is will actually, by definition, end up as optimal for one specific configuration and sub-optimal for others. Instead of trying to explicitly expand the interface to cover all the different possible ways that someone could want to interace with a Rows and columns, we rely on semantic interfaces using the as(java.lang.Class<T>) method instead.
That is, the expectation is that anything that works with a RowsAndColumns will tend to first ask the RowsAndColumns object to become some other interface, for example, a FramedOnHeapAggregatable. If a RowsAndColumns knows how to do a good job as the requested interface, it can return its own concrete implementation of the interface and run the necessary logic in its own optimized fashion. If the RowsAndColumns instance does not know how to implement the semantic interface, it is expected that a default implementation of the interface can be instantiated on top of the default column access mechanisms that the RowsAndColumns provides. Such default implementations should be functionally correct, but are not believed to be optimal.
The "default column access mechanisms" here amount to using findColumn(java.lang.String) to load a Column and then using Column.toAccessor() to access the individual cells of the column. There is also a Column.as(java.lang.Class<? extends T>) method which a default implementation might attempt to use to create a more optimal runtime.
It is intended that this interface can be used by Frames, Segments and even normal on-heap JVM data structures to participate in query operations.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`<T> T`	`as(Class<T> clazz)`	Asks the RowsAndColumns to return itself as a concrete implementation of a specific interface.
`static AppendableRowsAndColumns`	`expectAppendable(RowsAndColumns input)`
`Column`	`findColumn(String name)`	Finds a column by name.
`Collection<String>`	`getColumnNames()`	The set of column names available from the RowsAndColumns
`static <T> Map<Class<?>,Function<T,?>>`	`makeAsMap(Class<T> clazz)`
`int`	`numRows()`	The number of rows in the RowsAndColumns object

- Method Detail
  - expectAppendable
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@Nonnull
static AppendableRowsAndColumns expectAppendable(RowsAndColumns input)
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  - makeAsMap
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static <T> Map<Class<?>,Function<T,?>> makeAsMap(Class<T> clazz)
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  - getColumnNames
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Collection<String> getColumnNames()
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    The set of column names available from the RowsAndColumns
    
    Returns:
    
    The set of column names available from the RowsAndColumns
  - numRows
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int numRows()
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    The number of rows in the RowsAndColumns object
    
    Returns:
    
    the integer number of rows
  - findColumn
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@Nullable
Column findColumn(String name)
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    Finds a column by name. null is returned if the column is not found. The RowsAndColumns object should not attempt to default not-found columns to pretend as if they exist, instead the user of the RowsAndColumns object should decide the correct semantic interpretation of a column that does not exist. It is expected that most locations will choose to believe that the column does exist and is always null, but there are often optimizations that can effect this same assumption without doing a lot of extra work if the calling code knows that it does not exist.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name of the column to find
    
    Returns:
    
    the Column, if found. null if not found.
  - as
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@Nullable
<T> T as(Class<T> clazz)
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    Asks the RowsAndColumns to return itself as a concrete implementation of a specific interface. The interface asked for will tend to be a semantically-meaningful interface. This method allows the calling code to interrogate the RowsAndColumns object about whether it can offer a meaningful optimization of the semantic interface. If a RowsAndColumns cannot do anything specifically optimal for the interface requested, it should return null instead of trying to come up with its own default implementation.
    
    Type Parameters:
    
    T - The interface that the calling code wants a concrete implementation of
    
    Parameters:
    
    clazz - A class object representing the interface that the calling code wants a concrete implementation of
    
    Returns:
    
    A concrete implementation of the interface, or null if there is no meaningful optimization to be had through a local implementation of the interface.

Interface RowsAndColumns

Method Summary

Method Detail

expectAppendable

makeAsMap

getColumnNames

numRows

findColumn

as