org.apache.derby.iapi.types

Interface CollationElementsInterface

All Known Implementing Classes:

CollatorSQLChar, CollatorSQLClob, CollatorSQLLongvarchar, CollatorSQLVarchar

interface CollationElementsInterface

CollationElementsInterface is an interface which will be implemented by all the Collator sensitive char data types. These methods will be called by WorkHorseForCollatorDatatypes's collation sensitive methods "like, stringcompare" etc.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	hasSingleCollationElement() Check if this instance represents a value that has a single collation element.

Method Detail

hasSingleCollationElement

boolean hasSingleCollationElement()
                           throws StandardException

Check if this instance represents a value that has a single collation element.

Returns:

true if the value has exactly one collation element, or false otherwise

Throws:

StandardException - if an error occurs when accessing the value