nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.reusablecores.instancefactory
Class StringInstanceFactory

java.lang.Object
  nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.reusablecores.instancefactory.StringInstanceFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

InstanceFactory

public class StringInstanceFactory
extends java.lang.Object
implements InstanceFactory

Class for transforming a String into an Instance from a property of name 'name'. This transformation creates a single nominal attribute with only the given string as an option. It is assumed that concatentation or normalization operations will combine attributes into a more useful nominal attribute.

Constructor Summary

StringInstanceFactory()

Method Summary

StringInstanceFactory	prototype()
Instance	transform(java.lang.Object value, java.lang.String name) Transform an object into an Instance where the name of the dataset and the names of the attributes are derived from the name provided.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StringInstanceFactory

public StringInstanceFactory()

Method Detail

transform

public Instance transform(java.lang.Object value,
                          java.lang.String name)

Description copied from interface: InstanceFactory

Transform an object into an Instance where the name of the dataset and the names of the attributes are derived from the name provided.

Specified by:

transform in interface InstanceFactory

Parameters:

value - Property value to be transformed

name - string utilized to derive a dataset name and attribute names.

Returns:

Instance representing this object

prototype

public StringInstanceFactory prototype()

Specified by:

prototype in interface InstanceFactory