uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.qproc.annotate
Interface QueryAnnotationProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

FragmentProcessor, QueryAnnotationProviderStandard

public interface QueryAnnotationProvider

Defines a set of mandatory behaviours of a query annotator
Query annotator classes must implement this interface.

Author:

Lucas Zamboulis

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName() Return a unique name of a provider.
void	process(ASG g, Schema[] tgts, QueryProcessorConfiguration qpc) Annotate an IQL query based on a given configuration

Method Detail

getName

java.lang.String getName()

Return a unique name of a provider. This name is used as a key in a Map of provider objects

process

void process(ASG g,
             Schema[] tgts,
             QueryProcessorConfiguration qpc)
             throws QueryAnnotationException

Annotate an IQL query based on a given configuration

Parameters:

g - an ASG object of an IQL query

tgts - the target schemas against which the query is to be evaluated

qpc - QueryProcessorConfiguration providing the environment settings for the query processing.

Throws:

QueryAnnotationException