com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper
Interface CacheSignature

All Known Subinterfaces:

Allele, Basic, Environment, FitnessEngine, Gene, Genes, Genome, Genotype, Phenotype, TraitMap

All Known Implementing Classes:

Allele_, Allele_Binary, Allele_Dominance, Allele_Number, Allele_Sex, Environment_, Environment_Muirian, Environment_PepperedMoth, Environment_Susceptible, Environment_TS, FitnessEngine_, FitnessEngine_PepperedMoth, FitnessEngine_Simple, FitnessEngine_TS, Gene_, Gene_Diploid, Gene_Haploid, Genome_, Genome_Linear, Genotype_, Phenotype_, Phenotype_Dawkinsian, Phenotype_TS, TraitMap_, TraitMap_ReadOnly

public interface CacheSignature

Interface to define the notion of a cache key signature. See getSignature() for more detail.

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Method Summary

java.lang.String

getSignature()

Method Detail

getSignature

java.lang.String getSignature()

Returns:

a "signature" for this object which can be used to form part of a cache key. The signature is similar in a sense to the hash code but typically, it is based more on mutable components of an object than is the hash code.