nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.dataAquisition
Class DataAquisitionFactory

java.lang.Object
  nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.dataAquisition.DataAquisitionFactory

public class DataAquisitionFactory
extends java.lang.Object

Class for creating DataAquisition Objects

Method Summary

DataAquisition	create(java.util.Properties props) Creates a new DataAquisition object using the 'aquisition' property.
java.lang.String[]	getKnownModules()
static DataAquisitionFactory	newInstance() acquire a reference to this singleton

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

newInstance

public static DataAquisitionFactory newInstance()

acquire a reference to this singleton

Returns:

this class's static instance object initialized

create

public DataAquisition create(java.util.Properties props)

Creates a new DataAquisition object using the 'aquisition' property. See the init() function of each object for parameter info.

• 'File Reader' - single pass file reader of FOAF files
• 'File Reader 2 Pass' - two pass file reader of FOAF files
• 'Crawl LiveJournal' - crawls LiveJournal using given files as seeds
• 'GetArtistTags' - crawl LastFm for artist tags
• 'Load BibliographyXML' - load bibliographic info from an XML file with similar info to bibtex journal entries
• 'Load Bibliography and Class' - load bibliographic info from an XML file and class id ground truth from another XML file
• 'File Artist Tag Reader' - Read a directory of ArtistTag XML files
• 'Crawl LastFM' - crawl LastFm by spidering on usernames and artists
• 'Read LastFM Profile File' - Parse the XML files in the directory structure created by CrawlLastFM in a tar format
• 'Read MemGraph XML File' - read an arbitrary MemGraph XML serialization

Parameters:

props - key-value pairs used to configure

Returns:

DataAquisition object requested

getKnownModules

public java.lang.String[] getKnownModules()