uk.ac.ebi.arrayexpress2.magetab.datamodel.adf.node

Interface ADFNode

All Superinterfaces:

Node

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractADFNode, CompositeElementNode, FeatureNode, ReporterNode

public interface ADFNode
extends Node

A node in the ADF data structure. This defines no new methods compared to the general Node interface, but is used to mark nodes as belonging to the ADF graph

Author:

Tony Burdett

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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 interface uk.ac.ebi.arrayexpress2.magetab.datamodel.graph.Node

addChildNode, addChildNode, addParentNode, addParentNode, getChildNodes, getNodeName, getNodeType, getParentNodes, removeChildNode, removeParentNode, setNodeName, updateChildNode, updateParentNode

Method Detail

headers

String[] headers()

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

Returns:

the headers unique to this node

values

String[] values()

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

Returns:

the values for this node