proper.util
Class TemporaryName

java.lang.Object
  proper.util.TemporaryName

public class TemporaryName
extends java.lang.Object

This class creates temporary names from a given prefix, basically adding numbers to the end and incrementing them.

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $

Author:

FracPete

Constructor Summary

TemporaryName(java.lang.String prefix)
initizializes the generator with alphanumeric generation

TemporaryName(java.lang.String prefix, boolean alphanum)
initizializes the generator

Method Summary

boolean	getAlphaNumeric() returns whether alphanumeric suffices are generated or not
java.lang.String	getCurrent() returns the current temporary name
java.lang.String	getPrefix() returns the prefix for creating temporary names
java.lang.String	next() returns the next temporary name

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TemporaryName

public TemporaryName(java.lang.String prefix)

initizializes the generator with alphanumeric generation

Parameters:

prefix - the prefix to work with

TemporaryName

public TemporaryName(java.lang.String prefix,
                     boolean alphanum)

initizializes the generator

Parameters:

prefix - the prefix to work with

alphanum - if TRUE generates 0-9 and then A-Z suffices, if FALSE then only numeric ones

Method Detail

getPrefix

public java.lang.String getPrefix()

returns the prefix for creating temporary names

getAlphaNumeric

public boolean getAlphaNumeric()

returns whether alphanumeric suffices are generated or not

getCurrent

public java.lang.String getCurrent()

returns the current temporary name

next

public java.lang.String next()

returns the next temporary name