com.aimpulse.time

Class Timespan

java.lang.Object

com.aimpulse.base.Interval<Timestamp>

com.aimpulse.time.Timespan

public class Timespan
extends Interval<Timestamp>

A timespan is a temporal interval of timestamps. The begin timestamp is included in the set of timestamps represented by a timespan, the end timestamp is not.

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Aimpulse

See Also:

Duration

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static Timespan	MAX This timespan covers all dates between the minimum and maximum Timestamp but Timestamp.MAX.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Timespan(Timestamp begin, Timestamp end) Instantiates this timespan.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Duration	duration() Returns the duration of this timespan.

Methods inherited from class com.aimpulse.base.Interval

contains, contains, equals, getBegin, getEnd, hashCode

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

MAX

public static final Timespan MAX

This timespan covers all dates between the minimum and maximum Timestamp but Timestamp.MAX.

Constructor Detail

Timespan

public Timespan(Timestamp begin,
        Timestamp end)

Instantiates this timespan.

Parameters:

begin - the begin timestamp

end - the end timestamp

Throws:

NullPointerException - if the begin timestamp is null

NullPointerException - if the end timestamp is null

IllegalArgumentException - if the begin timestamp does not precede the end timestamp

Method Detail

duration

public Duration duration()

Returns the duration of this timespan.

Returns:

the duration of this timespan