edu.iastate.metnet.soft
Class Entity

java.lang.Object
  edu.iastate.metnet.soft.Entity

Direct Known Subclasses:

Platform, Sample, Series

public abstract class Entity
extends java.lang.Object

Constructor Summary

Entity(java.lang.String identifier)

Method Summary

boolean	addAttribute(java.lang.String attribute)
boolean	addAttribute(java.lang.String key, java.lang.String value)
void	addHeaderDescriptor(java.lang.String header, java.lang.String descriptor)
java.util.Vector<Attribute>	getAttributes()
java.lang.String	getHeaderDescriptor(java.lang.String header)
java.lang.String	getIdentifier()
java.util.Vector	getMissingAttributes()
abstract java.lang.String[]	getRequiredAttributes()
java.lang.String	getRowID(int row)
long[]	getRowPointers()
java.lang.String	getRowValue(int row)
java.lang.Object[][]	getTableData()
java.lang.String[]	getTableHeaders()
boolean	hasRequiredAttributes()
boolean	hasTableData()
abstract boolean	isValidAttribute(java.lang.String attribute)
void	setRowPointers(java.util.List<java.lang.Long> pointers)
void	setTableData(java.lang.Object[][] tableData)
void	setTableHeaders(java.lang.String[] headers)
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Entity

public Entity(java.lang.String identifier)

Method Detail

isValidAttribute

public abstract boolean isValidAttribute(java.lang.String attribute)

getRequiredAttributes

public abstract java.lang.String[] getRequiredAttributes()

getIdentifier

public java.lang.String getIdentifier()

getMissingAttributes

public java.util.Vector getMissingAttributes()

hasRequiredAttributes

public boolean hasRequiredAttributes()

addAttribute

public boolean addAttribute(java.lang.String attribute)
                     throws SOFTException

Throws:

SOFTException

addAttribute

public boolean addAttribute(java.lang.String key,
                            java.lang.String value)
                     throws SOFTException

Throws:

SOFTException

addHeaderDescriptor

public void addHeaderDescriptor(java.lang.String header,
                                java.lang.String descriptor)

getHeaderDescriptor

public java.lang.String getHeaderDescriptor(java.lang.String header)

setTableHeaders

public void setTableHeaders(java.lang.String[] headers)

getTableHeaders

public java.lang.String[] getTableHeaders()

setTableData

public void setTableData(java.lang.Object[][] tableData)

setRowPointers

public void setRowPointers(java.util.List<java.lang.Long> pointers)

getTableData

public java.lang.Object[][] getTableData()

getRowPointers

public long[] getRowPointers()

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

hasTableData

public boolean hasTableData()

getAttributes

public java.util.Vector<Attribute> getAttributes()

getRowID

public java.lang.String getRowID(int row)

getRowValue

public java.lang.String getRowValue(int row)