uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.reps
Class TransformationAbstraction

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.ic.doc.automed.reps.TransformationAbstraction

All Implemented Interfaces:

PersistentObject

public class TransformationAbstraction
extends java.lang.Object
implements PersistentObject

TransformationAbstraction.java Represents only an abstraction of the transformation

Author:

Duc M Le dmle@doc.ic.ac.uk Created on 03 May 2006 Department of Computing, Imperial College

Field Summary

private Transformation

_transObj

Constructor Summary

TransformationAbstraction(Transformation trans)
Creates a new instance of TransformationAbstraction

Method Summary

java.lang.String	debugString() Print content
static TransformationAbstraction	deserialise(java.util.Map pa) This method guarantees that a PersistentObject can be deserialised properly from its own set of persistent attributes.
PersistentKey	getKey()
java.util.Map	getPersistentAttributes() Only return an abstraction of the transformation

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

_transObj

private Transformation _transObj

Constructor Detail

TransformationAbstraction

public TransformationAbstraction(Transformation trans)

Creates a new instance of TransformationAbstraction

Method Detail

getKey

public PersistentKey getKey()

Specified by:

getKey in interface PersistentObject

getPersistentAttributes

public java.util.Map getPersistentAttributes()

Only return an abstraction of the transformation

Specified by:

getPersistentAttributes in interface PersistentObject

See Also:

PersistentObject.getPersistentAttributes()

deserialise

public static TransformationAbstraction deserialise(java.util.Map pa)
                                             throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

This method guarantees that a PersistentObject can be deserialised properly from its own set of persistent attributes. It is a reverse of getPersistentAttributes()

Parameters:

pa - a HashMap of persistent attributes (created by {@link #getPersistentAttributes())

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

debugString

public java.lang.String debugString()

Print content