com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper
Interface TraitMap

All Superinterfaces:

CacheSignature, Censusible, net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Phenotype

All Known Implementing Classes:

Phenotype_, Phenotype_Dawkinsian, Phenotype_TS, TraitMap_, TraitMap_ReadOnly

public interface TraitMap
extends CacheSignature, Censusible, net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable

Defines the operations on a read-only collection of Trait instances. XXX consider to rename this family of types as Phenotype... TODO consider combining this type with Expressions so that both can be named Phenotype.

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Method Summary

java.util.Set<java.lang.String>	getKeys()
Trait	getTrait(java.lang.String name) Accessor method to retrieve a trait from the map by name
java.util.Collection<Trait>	getTraits() TODO not required.
int	size() Method to get the number of traits in this map.

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper.CacheSignature

getSignature

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper.Censusible

censusMe, getCensusibleChildren

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable

getIdentifier

Method Detail

getKeys

java.util.Set<java.lang.String> getKeys()

Returns:

the set of traits.

getTrait

Trait getTrait(java.lang.String name)

Accessor method to retrieve a trait from the map by name

Parameters:

name -

Returns:

the Variant corresponding to name.

getTraits

java.util.Collection<Trait> getTraits()

TODO not required.

Returns:

the set of traits. Getter/setter typically called by reflection.

size

int size()

Method to get the number of traits in this map. TODO consider eliminating this -- use getTraits().size() instead.

Returns:

the number of traits in this map

See Also:

HashMap.size()