/// <summary>
/// Copy contructor for doing deep copy of the <b>Partition</b> objects.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="old">The <b>Partition</b> to copy from.</param>
public Partition(Partition old)
: base(old)
{
CopyMembers(old);
}
/// <summary>
/// Generates the partitions for a slice. Partition names and limits should be supplied.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="partitionNames">Array containing the names of the partitions.</param>
/// <param name="partitionLimits">Two dimensional array containing the limits
/// of the partitions.</param>
/// <returns>A list of newly generated partition entities.</returns>
/// <remarks>
/// The length of the <paramref name="partitionNames"/> and the length of the first dimension
/// of the <paramref name="partitionLimits"/> parameter must be the same. The <paramref name="partitionLimits"/>
/// array must have the second dimension of the size of 2.
/// </remarks>
public List<Partition> GeneratePartitions(string[] partitionNames, long[][] partitionLimits)
{
List<Partition> partitions = new List<Partition>();
for (int pi = 0; pi < partitionNames.Length; pi++)
{
Partition np = new Partition(this);
np.Name = partitionNames[pi];
np.From = partitionLimits[pi][0];
np.To = partitionLimits[pi][1];
np.Save();
partitions.Add(np);
}
return partitions;
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates a deep copy of the passed object.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="old">A <b>Partition</b> object to create the deep copy from.</param>
private void CopyMembers(Partition old)
{
this.from = old.from;
this.to = old.to;
}
