I was able to set up my own UDF but I noticed something that I can't explain
clearly, I am hoping someone can help me. This is again related to documenting
this feature.
In my FreeRefFunction implementation class, for the array of ValueEval objects,
I get a mix of things. In some cases I get an instance of NumberEval but in
others I've gotten a LazyRefEval. This confused me for a minute, then I
realized I could cast it to RefEval, call the getInnerType() method which could
then be cast to the NumberEval.
This seems a little confusing, am I doing this right? Or is there a better
way? Here is the code that I wrote:
@Override
public ValueEval evaluate( ValueEval[] args, OperationEvaluationContext ec ) {
if (args.length != 2 ) {
return ErrorEval.VALUE_INVALID;
}
NumberEval numEval1 = getNumberEval( args[0] );
NumberEval numEval2 = getNumberEval(args[1]) ;
double var1 = numEval1.getNumberValue() ;
double var2 = numEval2.getNumberValue() ;
double result = calculateH2_ZFactor( var1, var2 ) ;
return new NumberEval( result ) ;
}
/**
* In order to deal with my functions I need two numbers and they
* get passed differently depending on where they are called from. This
* function encapsulates the steps needed to convert the input to the
* NumberEval object. (this may not even be right)
*
* @param vEval
* @return
*/
private NumberEval getNumberEval( ValueEval vEval ) {
if( vEval != null ) {
if( vEval instanceof RefEval ) {
RefEval rEval = (RefEval)vEval ;
return( NumberEval)rEval.getInnerValueEval() ;
} else if( vEval instanceof NumberEval ) {
return (NumberEval)vEval ;
}
}
return null ;
}
It's the getNumberEval() method where all this casting happens and I think that
has to be wrong.
If it's not wrong, is there an explanation I can provide?
Another question is, I assume that the implementation of the evaluate() method
does not throw any exceptions, rather the values from ErrorEval should be used
to express a problem?
Thanks,
Jon
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