nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.graph.artist.decider
Class ArtistDeciderBase

java.lang.Object
  nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.graph.artist.decider.ArtistDeciderBase

All Implemented Interfaces:

ArtistDecider, ParsedObject

Direct Known Subclasses:

BasicArtistDecider, GoogleDecider, LastFMDecider, YahooArtistDecider

public abstract class ArtistDeciderBase
extends java.lang.Object
implements ArtistDecider, ParsedObject

Common base class for deciding whether or not something belongs to a class or not. Provides the abstract lookup method to implement class specific lookup code.

Constructor Summary

protected

ArtistDeciderBase() Creates a new instance of GoogleArtistDecider

Method Summary

void	addArtist(java.lang.String a) Manually adds an artist to the list of known artists
void	addChecked(java.lang.String c) Manually adds to the list of seen artists, but not known artists, effectively labeling it non-artist.
boolean	isArtist(java.lang.String name) Basic outline of a checked name.
protected boolean	isChecked(java.lang.String name) Has this decider seen this particular string before?
protected abstract void	lookup(java.lang.String name) Overridden to provide a means of determining an artist from a non-artist
static ArtistDeciderBase	newInstance() Only mechanism for getting access to this singleton object.
void	output(java.io.Writer outs) Write this decider to XML.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.graph.artist.decider.ArtistDecider

setProxy

Constructor Detail

ArtistDeciderBase

protected ArtistDeciderBase()

Creates a new instance of GoogleArtistDecider

Method Detail

newInstance

public static ArtistDeciderBase newInstance()

Only mechanism for getting access to this singleton object.

Returns:

static reference to the underlying class

isArtist

public boolean isArtist(java.lang.String name)

Basic outline of a checked name.

Specified by:

isArtist in interface ArtistDecider

Parameters:

name - string to be checked

Returns:

is it an artist or not, potentially after a lookup (if it is an unchecked string.

lookup

protected abstract void lookup(java.lang.String name)

Overridden to provide a means of determining an artist from a non-artist

Parameters:

name - string to be checked

isChecked

protected boolean isChecked(java.lang.String name)

Has this decider seen this particular string before?

Parameters:

name - name of string

Returns:

has this string been seen before.

output

public void output(java.io.Writer outs)
            throws java.io.IOException

Write this decider to XML.

Specified by:

output in interface ArtistDecider

Parameters:

outs - place to write the data

Throws:

java.io.IOException

addArtist

public void addArtist(java.lang.String a)

Manually adds an artist to the list of known artists

Specified by:

addArtist in interface ArtistDecider

Parameters:

a -

addChecked

public void addChecked(java.lang.String c)

Manually adds to the list of seen artists, but not known artists, effectively labeling it non-artist.

Specified by:

addChecked in interface ArtistDecider

Parameters:

c - non-artist string to be added.