com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper
Interface Phenome

All Known Implementing Classes:

Phenome_, Phenome_Gouldian, Phenome_Numerical

public interface Phenome

Defines the methods for implementations of the Phenome interface. A Phenome is the physical (phenotypic) counterpart to the Genomic and forms part of a Taxon. A Phenome is essentially a list of Traits with their values.

TODO consider renaming this family of types as Phenomics ...

Version:

$Revision: 1.14 $

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Method Summary

int	addCharacter(Pharacter character) Add a character to this phenome.
Pharacter	getCharacter(java.lang.String id)
java.util.Collection<java.lang.String>	getCharacterKeys()
java.util.Collection<Pharacter>	getCharacters()
java.lang.Object	getData() Method to return the current state of the application-specific data previously set in setData(Object).
FitnessEngine	getFitnessEngine() Method to get the application-supplied fitness engine for this phenome.
void	setData(java.lang.Object data) Method which can be used to set some application-specific data prior to a expressing a genome as a phenotype.
int	size()

Method Detail

addCharacter

int addCharacter(Pharacter character)

Add a character to this phenome.

Parameters:

character -

Returns:

the index of the new character.

getCharacter

Pharacter getCharacter(java.lang.String id)

Parameters:

id -

Returns:

the character with given id, else null

getCharacterKeys

java.util.Collection<java.lang.String> getCharacterKeys()

Returns:

the set of character keys for this Phenome

getCharacters

java.util.Collection<Pharacter> getCharacters()

Returns:

the characters

getData

java.lang.Object getData()

Method to return the current state of the application-specific data previously set in setData(Object). TODO check that we really want to use this mechanism for storing fitness.

Returns:

application-specific data.

getFitnessEngine

FitnessEngine getFitnessEngine()

Method to get the application-supplied fitness engine for this phenome.

Returns:

an implementation of FitnessEngine.

setData

void setData(java.lang.Object data)

Method which can be used to set some application-specific data prior to a expressing a genome as a phenotype. To retrieve the current value of this data at some later time, see getData().

Parameters:

data - application-specific data.

size

int size()

Returns:

the number of characters for this phenome.