interval.js

/**
 * Created by Alex Bol on 4/1/2017.
 */

/**
 * Interval is a pair of numbers or a pair of any comparable objects on which may be defined predicates
 * *equal*, *less* and method *max(p1, p1)* that returns maximum in a pair.
 * When interval is an object rather than pair of numbers, this object should have properties *low*, *high*, *max*
 * and implement methods *less_than(), equal_to(), intersect(), not_intersect(), clone(), output()*.
 * Two static methods *comparable_max(), comparable_less_than()* define how to compare values in pair. <br/>
 * This interface is described in typescript definition file *index.d.ts*
 *
 * Axis aligned rectangle is an example of such interval.
 * We may look at rectangle as an interval between its low left and top right corners.
 * See **Box** class in [flatten-js](https://github.com/alexbol99/flatten-js) library as the example
 * of Interval interface implementation
 * @type {Interval}
 */
const Interval = class Interval {
    /**
     * Accept two comparable values and creates new instance of interval
     * Predicate Interval.comparable_less(low, high) supposed to return true on these values
     * @param low
     * @param high
     */
    constructor(low, high) {
        this.low = low;
        this.high = high;
    }

    /**
     * Returns maximum value of the interval
     * @returns {*|Comparable}
     */
    get max() {
        return this.high;
    }


    /**
     * Clone interval
     * @returns {Interval}
     */
    clone() {
        return new Interval(this.low, this.high);
    }

    /**
     * Predicate returns true is this interval less than other interval
     * @param other_interval
     * @returns {boolean}
     */
    less_than(other_interval) {
        return this.low < other_interval.low ||
            this.low == other_interval.low && this.high < other_interval.high;
    }

    /**
     * Predicate returns true is this interval equals to other interval
     * @param other_interval
     * @returns {boolean}
     */
    equal_to(other_interval) {
        return this.low == other_interval.low && this.high == other_interval.high;
    }

    /**
     * Predicate returns true if this interval intersects other interval
     * @param other_interval
     * @returns {boolean}
     */
    intersect(other_interval) {
        return !this.not_intersect(other_interval);
    }

    /**
     * Predicate returns true if this interval does not intersect other interval
     * @param other_interval
     * @returns {boolean}
     */
    not_intersect(other_interval) {
        return (this.high < other_interval.low || other_interval.high < this.low);
    }

    /**
     * Returns how key should return
     */
    output() {
        return [this.low, this.high];
    }

    /**
     * Function returns maximum between two comparable values
     * @param val1
     * @param val2
     * @returns {number}
     */
    static comparable_max(val1, val2) {
        return Math.max(val1, val2);
    }

    /**
     * Predicate returns true if first value less than second value
     * @param val1
     * @param val2
     * @returns {boolean}
     */
    static comparable_less_than(val1, val2 ) {
        return val1 < val2;
    }
};

export default Interval;