/**
* A contact is the information that represent a contact person or organisation.
+ * <p>
+ * Each {@link Data} inside can be binary encoded or not: if it is binary
+ * encoded, it has an active BKey number (not -1) associated to it (of value 0
+ * if still not sorted, or unique for the whole {@link Contact} if already
+ * processed).
*
* @author niki
- *
*/
public class Contact extends BaseClass<Data> {
private int nextBKey = 1;
/**
* Return the value of the preferred data field with this name, or NULL if
- * none (you cannot differentiate a NULL value and no value).
+ * none (you cannot differentiate a NULL value and no value with this method
+ * -- for that, check {@link Contact#getPreferredData(String)}).
*
* @param name
* the name to look for
* Get the Data fields that share the given name.
*
* @param name
- * the name to ook for
+ * the name to look for
* @return a list of Data fields with this name
*/
public List<Data> getData(String name) {
}
/**
- * Return a {@link String} representation of this contact, in vCard 2.1,
- * without BKeys.
+ * Return a simple {@link String} representation of this contact without
+ * BKeys.
*
* @return the {@link String} representation
*/
/**
* Add a {@link String} to the given {@link List}, but make sure it does not
* exceed the maximum size, and truncate it if needed to fit.
+ * <p>
+ * Will always add one and only one {@link String} (potentially empty) at
+ * the end of <tt>list</tt>.
*
* @param list
+ * the list to add to
* @param add
+ * the {@link String} to (either fully or partially) add
* @param currentSize
+ * the current total size (managed outside of this method)
* @param maxSize
- * @return
+ * the maximum size that cannot be exceeded (or -1 for
+ * "no maximum") -- if the maximum size would be exceeded by
+ * adding this {@link String}, only a part of it will be added;
+ * if the maximum size is already reached or exceeded (should not
+ * happen because of this method), an empty {@link String} will
+ * be added
+ *
+ * @return the number of characters added (the size of the last
+ * {@link String} in <tt>list</tt>)
*/
static private int addToList(List<String> list, String add,
int currentSize, int maxSize) {