org.kuali.rice.core.api.criteria
Enum OrderDirection

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Enum<OrderDirection>
      org.kuali.rice.core.api.criteria.OrderDirection

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparable<OrderDirection>

public enum OrderDirection
extends Enum<OrderDirection>

Defines possible directives for how a query is requested to produce count values in it's results.

Author:

Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

Enum Constant Summary

ASCENDING
Indicates that rows will be returned in Ascending order.

DESCENDING
Indicates that rows will be returned in descending order.

Method Summary

String	getDirection() Returns the value of the count flag.
static OrderDirection	valueOf(String name) Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name.
static OrderDirection[]	values() Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum

clone, compareTo, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Enum Constant Detail

ASCENDING

public static final OrderDirection ASCENDING

Indicates that rows will be returned in Ascending order.

DESCENDING

public static final OrderDirection DESCENDING

Indicates that rows will be returned in descending order.

Method Detail

values

public static OrderDirection[] values()

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

for (OrderDirection c : OrderDirection.values())
    System.out.println(c);

Returns:

an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

valueOf

public static OrderDirection valueOf(String name)

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

Parameters:

name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

Returns:

the enum constant with the specified name

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

NullPointerException - if the argument is null

getDirection

public String getDirection()

Returns the value of the count flag.

Returns:

the flag