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package org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators;

import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.impl.plan.OperatorKey;

/**
 * This is a base class for all binary comparison operators. Supports the
 * use of operand type instead of result type as the result type is
 * always boolean.
 * 
 * All comparison operators fetch the lhs and rhs operands and compare
 * them for each type using different comparison methods based on what
 * comparison is being implemented.
 *
 */
public abstract class BinaryComparisonOperator extends BinaryExpressionOperator
        implements ComparisonOperator {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1711987060802103390L;

    protected byte operandType;
    
    public BinaryComparisonOperator(OperatorKey k) {
        this(k,-1);
    }

    public BinaryComparisonOperator(OperatorKey k, int rp) {
        super(k, rp);
    }

    public byte getOperandType() {
        return operandType;
    }

    public void setOperandType(byte operandType) {
        this.operandType = operandType;
    }

    protected void cloneHelper(BinaryComparisonOperator op) {
        operandType = op.operandType;
        super.cloneHelper(op);
    }
    
    public Tuple illustratorMarkup(Object in, Object out, int eqClassIndex) {
        if (illustrator != null) {
            illustrator.setSubExpResult(eqClassIndex == 0);
        }
        return null;
    }
}