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

Class ProviderAttribute

java.lang.Object

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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

SDRFAttribute

public class ProviderAttribute
extends AbstractSDRFAttribute

A provider attribute node in the graph. Providers are annotations on specific named nodes, and can be applied to Source, nodes. Characteristics can have a sub-attribute of a set of comments.

Author:

Tony Burdett

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
Map<String,String>	comments

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

attributeValue

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ProviderAttribute()

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

comments

public final Map<String,String> comments

Constructor Detail

ProviderAttribute

public ProviderAttribute()

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