com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.history

Interface GroupableData

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicHistoricalRecord

public interface GroupableData

GroupableData is data that can be merged together in order to be stored more efficiently down the chain.

Data that can be grouped together represents the same type of thing- ie, multiple rows of the same table. The id returned by getId() should be unique enough to make sure that this is true.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getGroupId() A string identifing the "group" of the data.
void	groupData(GroupableData other) Merge another piece of similar data into this one.

Method Detail

getGroupId

java.lang.String getGroupId()

A string identifing the "group" of the data. In other words, any piece of data from this group can be merged together.

groupData

void groupData(GroupableData other)

Merge another piece of similar data into this one.