nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.graph.property
Interface Property

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Comparable, Model, java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicProperty

public interface Property
extends java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Comparable, Model

Class for defining a property on either actor, link, or graph

Field Summary

static int

ADD_VALUE

Method Summary

void	add(java.lang.Object value) Add a new value to this property
Property	duplicate() create a deep copy of this property
java.lang.Class	getPropertyClass() Return the type of class that this property represents.
java.lang.String	getType() return this property's unique id
java.lang.Object[]	getValue() return array of all values.

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Methods inherited from interface nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.graph.model.Model

addListener

Field Detail

ADD_VALUE

static final int ADD_VALUE

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

add

void add(java.lang.Object value)
         throws InvalidObjectTypeException

Add a new value to this property

Parameters:

value - new object to be added

Throws:

InvalidObjectTypeException

getType

java.lang.String getType()

return this property's unique id

Returns:

id of this object

getValue

java.lang.Object[] getValue()

return array of all values. Returns an empty array if no properties are present

Returns:

array of property values

duplicate

Property duplicate()

create a deep copy of this property

Returns:

deep copy of this property

getPropertyClass

java.lang.Class getPropertyClass()

Return the type of class that this property represents. All objects in one property must be of the same type.

Returns:

name of class types of objects