com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics
Class AlleleFactory

java.lang.Object
  com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics.AlleleFactory

public final class AlleleFactory
extends java.lang.Object

Factory Class to create Allele objects. Applications can't change this class (it is final) but they can override the methods which call these methods.

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Method Summary

static Allele	makeAllele(java.lang.Class<? extends Allele> clazz, java.lang.Object key, java.lang.Object value) TEST
static Allele	makeDominanceAllele(java.lang.String identifier, boolean dominant) Construct a new Allele_Dominance with the given allele indexes TEST
static Allele	makeSexAllele(boolean male)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

makeAllele

public static Allele makeAllele(java.lang.Class<? extends Allele> clazz,
                                java.lang.Object key,
                                java.lang.Object value)

TEST

Parameters:

clazz - the class of Allele to instantiate, which must have a constructor of form Allele(Object,Object).

key - the key

value - the value

Returns:

a newly constructed Object.

makeDominanceAllele

public static Allele makeDominanceAllele(java.lang.String identifier,
                                         boolean dominant)

Construct a new Allele_Dominance with the given allele indexes TEST

Parameters:

identifier - the identifier for a pair of dominant/recessive alleles (the identifiers should match but don't need to be in any particular case).

dominant - true if the allele is to be dominant, else recessive

Returns:

a newly constructed Allele_Dominance.

makeSexAllele

public static Allele makeSexAllele(boolean male)

Parameters:

male - XXX

Returns:

a newly constructed Allele_Sex object.