stella.parameter
Interface TargetDependIncreasing<T>

All Superinterfaces:

Increasing<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AirmassTarget, AltTarget, AzTarget, TauTarget

public interface TargetDependIncreasing<T>
extends Increasing<T>

An interface denoting that this Value implementation has a value that increases with time. More importantly, this value knows how to calculate the remaining time it will take until a certain value is reached. This time can be queried and used for e.g. scheduling purposes.
This interface should be implemented by target depending parameters.

Method Summary

Double

getAscendTimeFor(TargetDefinition target, T until) Calculates the remaining time in ms till this parameter reaches the argument value (increasing from lower values).

Methods inherited from interface stella.parameter.Increasing

getAscendTime

Method Detail

getAscendTimeFor

Double getAscendTimeFor(TargetDefinition target,
                        T until)

Calculates the remaining time in ms till this parameter reaches the argument value (increasing from lower values). For a time query this is simply the difference between the argument value and the current time.

Parameters:

until - The value in the future.

Returns:

A double carrying the remaining time or null if the time cannot be calculated.