Jskad/source/org/apache/commons/jrcs/diff/myers/DiffNode.java
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package org.apache.commons.jrcs.diff.myers;
/**
* <p>Title: </p>
* <p>Description: </p>
* <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002</p>
* <p>Company: </p>
* @author not attributable
* @version 1.0
*/
/**
* A diffnode in a diffpath.
* <p>
* A DiffNode and its previous node mark a delta between
* two input sequences, that is, two differing subsequences
* between (possibly zero length) matching sequences.
*
* {@link DiffNode DiffNodes} and {@link Snake Snakes} allow for compression
* of diffpaths, as each snake is represented by a single {@link Snake Snake}
* node and each contiguous series of insertions and deletions is represented
* by a single {@link DiffNode DiffNodes}.
*
* @version $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2003/07/14 12:22:29 $
* @author <a href="mailto:juanco@suigeneris.org">Juanco Anez</a>
*
*/
public final class DiffNode
extends PathNode
{
/**
* Constructs a DiffNode.
* <p>
* DiffNodes are compressed. That means that
* the path pointed to by the <code>prev</code> parameter
* will be followed using {@link PathNode#previousSnake}
* until a non-diff node is found.
*
* @param the position in the original sequence
* @param the position in the revised sequence
* @param prev the previous node in the path.
*/
public DiffNode(int i, int j, PathNode prev)
{
super(i, j, (prev == null ? null : prev.previousSnake()) );
}
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
* @return false, always
*/
public boolean isSnake()
{
return false;
}
}