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TimeBench, a flexible, easy-to-use, and reusable software library written in Java that provides foundational data structures and algorithms for time- oriented data in Visual Analytics.

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package timeBench.data;

import java.util.Collections;

import timeBench.calendar.Granule;

/**
 * Instant in the relational view. Following the
 * proxy tuple pattern [Heer & Agrawala, 2006] it provides an object
 * oriented proxy for accessing a row of the temporal elements table.
 * 
 * 
 * This class assumes that the underlying data tuple is an instant.
 * 
 * @author Rind
 */
public class Instant extends AnchoredTemporalElement {

    /**
     * creates an invalid TemporalElement. Use {@link TemporalDataset} as a
     * factory!
     */
    protected Instant() {
    }

    @Override
    public Iterable childElements() {
        // an instant should not have children (speedup?)
        return Collections. emptyList();
    }

    @Override
    public int getChildCount() {
        // an instant should not have children (speedup?)
        return 0;
    }
    
    public void set(Granule granule) throws TemporalDataException {
        ((TemporalElementStore) getGraph()).set(this, granule);
    }
}