net.sourceforge.nite.meta.impl
Class NiteAttribute

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.nite.meta.impl.NiteAttribute

All Implemented Interfaces:

NAttribute

public class NiteAttribute
extends java.lang.Object
implements NAttribute

A attribute as referred to in the metadata

Author:

jonathan

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface net.sourceforge.nite.meta.NAttribute

ENUMERATED_ATTRIBUTE, NUMBER_ATTRIBUTE, STRING_ATTRIBUTE

Constructor Summary

NiteAttribute(java.lang.String name, int type, java.util.ArrayList values)

Method Summary

java.util.List	getEnumeratedValues() Find the possible stringvalues for this attribute - returns an ArrayList of Strings
java.lang.String	getName() returns the name of the attribute
int	getType() returns one of STRING_ATTRIBUTE, NUMBER_ATTRIBUTE or ENUMERATED_ATTRIBUTE.
boolean	isSerialized() returns true if the attribute should be serialized
void	setSerialized(boolean bool) set whether this attribute will be serialized if the corpus is saved.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NiteAttribute

public NiteAttribute(java.lang.String name,
                     int type,
                     java.util.ArrayList values)

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

returns the name of the attribute

Specified by:

getName in interface NAttribute

getType

public int getType()

returns one of STRING_ATTRIBUTE, NUMBER_ATTRIBUTE or ENUMERATED_ATTRIBUTE.

Specified by:

getType in interface NAttribute

getEnumeratedValues

public java.util.List getEnumeratedValues()

Find the possible stringvalues for this attribute - returns an ArrayList of Strings

Specified by:

getEnumeratedValues in interface NAttribute

isSerialized

public boolean isSerialized()

returns true if the attribute should be serialized

Specified by:

isSerialized in interface NAttribute

setSerialized

public void setSerialized(boolean bool)

set whether this attribute will be serialized if the corpus is saved. This affects both the metadata and the associated NOM data.

Specified by:

setSerialized in interface NAttribute