nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.graph.property
Interface PropertyValueFactory<Type>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AssociativeMiningItemsFactory, DoubleFactory, FileFactory, HashMapStringDoubleFactory, InstanceFactory, InstancesFactory, IntegerFactory, LongFactory, StringFactory, URLFactory

public interface PropertyValueFactory<Type>

A factory interface for importing and exporting a given java data type from Strings. Must use only non-XML characters.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	exportToString(Type type, Graph g) Create a string representing the contents of this object.
Type	importFromString(java.lang.String data, Graph g) Create an instance of this type from a string.

Method Detail

importFromString

Type importFromString(java.lang.String data,
                      Graph g)

Create an instance of this type from a string.

Parameters:

data - string containing the data used to create the object

g - graph context of the string

Returns:

newly constructed object

exportToString

java.lang.String exportToString(Type type,
                                Graph g)

Create a string representing the contents of this object.

Parameters:

type - object to be serialized

g - graph context of the object

Returns:

string representing the content of the object