Package i5.las2peer.persistency.helper

Class MergeCounter

java.lang.Object

i5.las2peer.persistency.helper.MergeCounter

public class MergeCounter
extends Object

This class is used in the collision handling process. It counts the number of collisions (merging attempts) and helps finding a reasonable limit to terminate the merging process. To terminate the merging process a StorageCollisionHandler should throw an StopMergingException.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MergeCounter()	default constructor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	increase()	This method is called on each merging attempt and increases the counter.
long	value()	Gets the current value of this counter.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

MergeCounter

public MergeCounter()

default constructor

Method Details

increase

public void increase()
              throws StopMergingException

This method is called on each merging attempt and increases the counter.

Throws:

StopMergingException - If the counter is greater than the 1000000000L to prevent some infinite lookps.

value

public long value()

Gets the current value of this counter.

Returns:

Returns the value.