weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute
Class Obfuscate

java.lang.Object
  weka.filters.Filter
      weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.Obfuscate

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, StreamableFilter, UnsupervisedFilter

public class Obfuscate

extends Filter

implements UnsupervisedFilter, StreamableFilter

A simple instance filter that renames the relation, all attribute names and all nominal (and string) attribute values. For exchanging sensitive datasets. Currently doesn't like string attributes.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Len Trigg (len@reeltwo.com)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class weka.filters.Filter

m_NewBatch

Constructor Summary

Obfuscate()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	globalInfo() Returns a string describing this filter
boolean	input(Instance instance) Input an instance for filtering.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] argv) Main method for testing this class.
boolean	setInputFormat(Instances instanceInfo) Sets the format of the input instances.

Methods inherited from class weka.filters.Filter

batchFilterFile, batchFinished, bufferInput, copyStringValues, copyStringValues, filterFile, flushInput, getInputFormat, getInputStringIndex, getOutputFormat, getOutputStringIndex, getStringIndices, inputFormat, inputFormatPeek, isOutputFormatDefined, numPendingOutput, output, outputFormat, outputFormatPeek, outputPeek, push, resetQueue, setOutputFormat, useFilter

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Obfuscate

public Obfuscate()

Method Detail

globalInfo

public java.lang.String globalInfo()

Returns a string describing this filter

Returns:

a description of the filter suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

setInputFormat

public boolean setInputFormat(Instances instanceInfo)
                       throws java.lang.Exception

Sets the format of the input instances.

Overrides:

setInputFormat in class Filter

Parameters:

instanceInfo - an Instances object containing the input instance structure (any instances contained in the object are ignored - only the structure is required).

Returns:

true if the outputFormat may be collected immediately

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if the inputFormat can't be set successfully

input

public boolean input(Instance instance)

Input an instance for filtering. Ordinarily the instance is processed and made available for output immediately. Some filters require all instances be read before producing output.

Overrides:

input in class Filter

Parameters:

instance - the input instance

Returns:

true if the filtered instance may now be collected with output().

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if no input format has been set.

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] argv)

Main method for testing this class.

Parameters:

argv - should contain arguments to the filter: use -h for help