uk.ac.ebi.arrayexpress2.magetab.datamodel.sdrf.node.attribute

Class MaterialTypeAttribute

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.ebi.arrayexpress2.magetab.datamodel.sdrf.node.attribute.AbstractSDRFAttribute

uk.ac.ebi.arrayexpress2.magetab.datamodel.sdrf.node.attribute.MaterialTypeAttribute

All Implemented Interfaces:

SDRFAttribute

public class MaterialTypeAttribute
extends AbstractSDRFAttribute

A material type attribute node in the graph. Material types are annotations on specific named nodes, and can be applied to Source, Sample, Extract and LabeledExtract nodes. Characteristics can have the sub-attribute termSourceREF.

Author:

Tony Burdett

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
String	termAccessionNumber
String	termSourceREF

Fields inherited from class uk.ac.ebi.arrayexpress2.magetab.datamodel.sdrf.node.attribute.AbstractSDRFAttribute

attributeValue

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
MaterialTypeAttribute()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getAttributeType() Get the type of this attribute.
String[]	headers() Returns a string array representing the headers of this node and all it's attributes.
String[]	values() Returns the strings representing the values of this node and all it's attributes, indexed by the matching headers.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.ebi.arrayexpress2.magetab.datamodel.sdrf.node.attribute.AbstractSDRFAttribute

equals, getAttributeValue, getLog, getNodeName, getNodeType, hashCode, setAttributeValue

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

termSourceREF

public String termSourceREF

termAccessionNumber

public String termAccessionNumber

Constructor Detail

MaterialTypeAttribute

public MaterialTypeAttribute()

Method Detail

getAttributeType

public String getAttributeType()

Description copied from interface: SDRFAttribute

Get the type of this attribute. The attribute is typed (like Nodes) by the standardised "Name" tag for the node, including any option qualifiers (such as contents of square brackets, parentheses, or prefixes in some cases).

Returns:

the attribute type, including qualifiers

headers

public String[] headers()

Description copied from interface: SDRFAttribute

Returns a string array representing the headers of this node and all it's attributes.

Returns:

the headers unique to this node

values

public String[] values()

Description copied from interface: SDRFAttribute

Returns the strings representing the values of this node and all it's attributes, indexed by the matching headers. So, SDRFAttribute.headers() and values have exactly the same length and the same order.

Returns:

the values for this node