netkit.graph
Class AttributeKey

java.lang.Object
  netkit.graph.Attribute
      netkit.graph.AttributeCategorical
          netkit.graph.AttributeExpandableCategorical
              netkit.graph.AttributeKey

public final class AttributeKey
extends AttributeExpandableCategorical

This class handles attributes that are of type KEY. KEY types have values that must be unique among all entities in the same attribute container.

Author:

Kaveh R. Ghazi

See Also:

Attributes, SchemaReader

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class netkit.graph.AttributeCategorical

tokenSet

Constructor Summary

AttributeKey(java.lang.String name)
The constructor must be provided the name for this attribute.

Method Summary

double

parseAndInsert(java.lang.String token) Parses the supplied string token for insertion into this attribute and converts the token into a double value;

Methods inherited from class netkit.graph.AttributeExpandableCategorical

addToken

Methods inherited from class netkit.graph.AttributeCategorical

formatForOutput, getToken, getTokens, getValue, size

Methods inherited from class netkit.graph.Attribute

getName, getType, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AttributeKey

public AttributeKey(java.lang.String name)

The constructor must be provided the name for this attribute.

Parameters:

name - a String representing the name of this attribute.

Method Detail

parseAndInsert

public double parseAndInsert(java.lang.String token)

Parses the supplied string token for insertion into this attribute and converts the token into a double value;

Overrides:

parseAndInsert in class AttributeExpandableCategorical

Parameters:

token - the string value to parse.

Returns:

the token converted into an double.

Throws:

java.lang.RuntimeException - if the token is "?".

java.lang.RuntimeException - if the token is a duplicate.