de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data
Class MultiRepresentedObject<O extends DatabaseObject>

java.lang.Object
  de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data.AbstractDatabaseObject
      de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data.MultiRepresentedObject<O>

Type Parameters:

O - the type of represented DatabaseObjects

All Implemented Interfaces:

DatabaseObject

public class MultiRepresentedObject<O extends DatabaseObject>
extends AbstractDatabaseObject

MultiRepresentedObject represents a collection of several DatabaseObjects of a same superclass.

Author:

Elke Achtert

Field Summary

private List<O>

representations Holds the different representations of this object.

Constructor Summary

MultiRepresentedObject(List<O> representations)
Provides a MultiRepresentedObject comprising the specified representations.

Method Summary

int	getNumberOfRepresentations() Returns the number of representations.
O	getRepresentation(int i) Returns the ith representation of this object

Methods inherited from class de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data.AbstractDatabaseObject

getID, setID

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data.DatabaseObject

equals

Field Detail

representations

private List<O extends DatabaseObject> representations

Holds the different representations of this object.

Constructor Detail

MultiRepresentedObject

public MultiRepresentedObject(List<O> representations)

Provides a MultiRepresentedObject comprising the specified representations. If representation at index i does not exist, the representations array must return a null value for this index.

Parameters:

representations - an array of the representations

Method Detail

getRepresentation

public O getRepresentation(int i)

Returns the ith representation of this object

Parameters:

i - the index of the representation to be retuned

Returns:

the ith representation of this object

getNumberOfRepresentations

public int getNumberOfRepresentations()

Returns the number of representations.

Returns:

the number of representations