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

Class CharacteristicsAttribute

java.lang.Object

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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

SDRFAttribute

public class CharacteristicsAttribute
extends AbstractSDRFAttribute

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

Author:

Tony Burdett

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
String	termAccessionNumber
String	termSourceREF
String	type
UnitAttribute	unit

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

attributeValue

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CharacteristicsAttribute()

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

type

public String type

unit

public UnitAttribute unit

termAccessionNumber

public String termAccessionNumber

termSourceREF

public String termSourceREF

Constructor Detail

CharacteristicsAttribute

public CharacteristicsAttribute()

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