Package es.uam.eps.ir.relison.diffusion.update

Interface UpdateMechanism

All Known Implementing Classes:

MergerUpdateMechanism, NewestUpdateMechanism, OldestUpdateMechanism

public interface UpdateMechanism

Class for the update mechanism for the information in the corresponding lists.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
PropagatedInformation	updateDiscarded(PropagatedInformation oldInfo, PropagatedInformation newInfo)	Updates a piece of information which was previously discarded.
PropagatedInformation	updateSeen(PropagatedInformation oldInfo, PropagatedInformation newInfo)	Updates a piece of information which has been newly seen.

Method Details

updateSeen

PropagatedInformation updateSeen(PropagatedInformation oldInfo, PropagatedInformation newInfo)

Updates a piece of information which has been newly seen.

Parameters:

oldInfo - piece of information with old info.

newInfo - piece of information with new info.

Returns:

the updated piece of information.

updateDiscarded

PropagatedInformation updateDiscarded(PropagatedInformation oldInfo, PropagatedInformation newInfo)

Updates a piece of information which was previously discarded.

Parameters:

oldInfo - piece of information with the discarded info.

newInfo - piece of information with the new info.

Returns:

the updated piece of information.