de.jstacs.results

Class CategoricalResult

java.lang.Object

de.jstacs.AnnotatedEntity

de.jstacs.results.Result

de.jstacs.results.SimpleResult

de.jstacs.results.CategoricalResult

All Implemented Interfaces:

Storable, Comparable<SimpleResult>

Direct Known Subclasses:

GalaxyAdaptor.HeadResult

public class CategoricalResult
extends SimpleResult

A class for categorical results (i.e. non-numerical results) for primitives and Strings.

Author:

Jan Grau

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class de.jstacs.results.SimpleResult

result

Fields inherited from class de.jstacs.AnnotatedEntity

comment, datatype, name

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CategoricalResult(DataType datatype, String name, String comment, Comparable result) Creates a result of a primitive categorical data type or a String .
CategoricalResult(StringBuffer representation) The standard constructor for the interface Storable.
CategoricalResult(String name, String comment, boolean result) Creates a result of a boolean.
CategoricalResult(String name, String comment, String result) Creates a result of a String.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getXMLTag() This method returns a tag used as outer tag of the XML description.

Methods inherited from class de.jstacs.results.SimpleResult

appendFurtherInfos, compareTo, equals, extractFurtherInfos, getValue, toString

Methods inherited from class de.jstacs.results.Result

checkDatatype, createResult, getOriginalName, isCastableResult, isComparableResult, rename

Methods inherited from class de.jstacs.AnnotatedEntity

getComment, getDatatype, getName, toXML

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CategoricalResult

public CategoricalResult(StringBuffer representation)
                  throws NonParsableException

The standard constructor for the interface Storable. Creates a new CategoricalResult from its XML representation.

Parameters:

representation - the XML representation as StringBuffer

Throws:

NonParsableException - if the StringBuffer representation could not be parsed

CategoricalResult

public CategoricalResult(DataType datatype,
                         String name,
                         String comment,
                         Comparable result)
                  throws SimpleParameter.IllegalValueException

Creates a result of a primitive categorical data type or a String .

Parameters:

datatype - the primitive data type

name - the name of the result

comment - a comment on the result

result - the result itself

Throws:

SimpleParameter.IllegalValueException - if the result value is not of the expected data type

CategoricalResult

public CategoricalResult(String name,
                         String comment,
                         String result)

Creates a result of a String.

Parameters:

name - the name of the result

comment - a comment on the result

result - the result itself

CategoricalResult

public CategoricalResult(String name,
                         String comment,
                         boolean result)

Creates a result of a boolean.

Parameters:

name - the name of the result

comment - a comment on the result

result - the result itself

Method Detail

getXMLTag

public String getXMLTag()

Description copied from class: AnnotatedEntity

This method returns a tag used as outer tag of the XML description.

Specified by:

getXMLTag in class AnnotatedEntity

Returns:

a tag used as outer tag of the XML description