com.rubecula.util
Class AuditableObject

java.lang.Object
  com.rubecula.util.AuditableObject

All Implemented Interfaces:

Auditable, Identifiable, Cloneable

Direct Known Subclasses:

Attribute_Abstract, Gene_Abstract, Organism_Abstract

public abstract class AuditableObject
extends Object
implements Auditable, Cloneable

Abstract class to model auditable objects.

Version:

$Revision: 1.4 $

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Constructor Summary

AuditableObject()

Method Summary

String	audit() Method to return a detailed (unlabeled) string from an object for debugging purposes.
void	audit(PrintStream out, String label) Method to output detailed string from an object for debugging purposes.
void	audit(PrintWriter out, String label) Method to output detailed string from an object for debugging purposes.
Object	clone()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.util.Auditable

audit

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.util.Identifiable

getIdentifier

Constructor Detail

AuditableObject

public AuditableObject()

Method Detail

audit

public String audit()

Method to return a detailed (unlabeled) string from an object for debugging purposes.

Specified by:

audit in interface Auditable

Returns:

the detailed string.

audit

public void audit(PrintStream out,
                  String label)

Method to output detailed string from an object for debugging purposes.

Parameters:

out - the output stream.

label - the label to attach to the output (may be null).

audit

public void audit(PrintWriter out,
                  String label)

Method to output detailed string from an object for debugging purposes.

Specified by:

audit in interface Auditable

Parameters:

out - the output stream.

label - the label to attach to the output (may be null).

clone

public Object clone()
             throws CloneNotSupportedException

Overrides:

clone in class Object

Throws:

CloneNotSupportedException