se.sics.prologbeans
Class Bindings

Bindings handles the variable bindings in the communication with the prolog server. Using variable bindings ensures that the values are properly quoted when sent to the prolog server.

Bindings

public Bindings()

Creates a new Bindings instance with no variable bindings.

Bindings

public Bindings(se.sics.prologbeans.Bindings binds)

Creates a new Bindings instance and copies all existing variable bindings from the specified bindings.

Parameters:

binds - the variable bindings to copy

bind

public se.sics.prologbeans.Bindings bind(string name,
                                         se.sics.prologbeans.Term bvalue)

Adds the specified variable binding. The variable name must start with an upper case letter or '_'.

Parameters:

name - a prolog variable name

bvalue - the value to bind to the variable

Returns:

a reference to this Bindings object

Throws:

System.ArgumentException - if the name is not a valid prolog variable name

bind

public se.sics.prologbeans.Bindings bind(string name,
                                         string bvalue)

Adds the specified variable binding. The variable name must start with an upper case letter or '_'.

Parameters:

name - a prolog variable name

bvalue - the value to bind to the variable

Returns:

a reference to this Bindings object

Throws:

System.ArgumentException - if the name is not a valid prolog variable name

bind

public se.sics.prologbeans.Bindings bind(string name,
                                         double bvalue)

Adds the specified variable binding. The variable name must start with an upper case letter or '_'.

Parameters:

name - a prolog variable name

bvalue - the value to bind to the variable

Returns:

a reference to this Bindings object

Throws:

System.ArgumentException - if the name is not a valid prolog variable name

bind

public se.sics.prologbeans.Bindings bind(string name,
                                         float bvalue)

Adds the specified variable binding. The variable name must start with an upper case letter or '_'.

Parameters:

name - a prolog variable name

bvalue - the value to bind to the variable

Returns:

a reference to this Bindings object

Throws:

System.ArgumentException - if the name is not a valid prolog variable name

bind

public se.sics.prologbeans.Bindings bind(string name,
                                         long bvalue)

Adds the specified variable binding. The variable name must start with an upper case letter or '_'.

Parameters:

name - a prolog variable name

bvalue - the value to bind to the variable

Returns:

a reference to this Bindings object

Throws:

System.ArgumentException - if the name is not a valid prolog variable name

bind

public se.sics.prologbeans.Bindings bind(string name,
                                         int bvalue)

Adds the specified variable binding. The variable name must start with an upper case letter or '_'.

Parameters:

name - a prolog variable name

bvalue - the value to bind to the variable

Returns:

a reference to this Bindings object

Throws:

System.ArgumentException - if the name is not a valid prolog variable name

bindAtom

public se.sics.prologbeans.Bindings bindAtom(string name,
                                             string bvalue)

Adds the specified variable binding. The variable name must start with an upper case letter or '_'. The value will be bound as an atom.

Parameters:

name - a prolog variable name

bvalue - the value to bind to the variable as an atom

Returns:

a reference to this Bindings object

Throws:

System.ArgumentException - if the name is not a valid prolog variable name

getValue

public se.sics.prologbeans.Term getValue(string name)

Returns the value for the specified variable or null if the variable is not bound.

Parameters:

name - the name of the variable

Returns:

the value of the variable as a Term or null if the variable is not bound

ToString

public string ToString()