weka.core

Class TechnicalInformation

java.lang.Object

weka.core.TechnicalInformation

All Implemented Interfaces:

RevisionHandler

public class TechnicalInformation
extends Object
implements RevisionHandler

Used for paper references in the Javadoc and for BibTex generation. Based on documentation found here:

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/bibtex.html

BibTex examples can be found here:

http://bib2web.djvuzone.org/bibtex.html

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $

Author:

fracpete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

See Also:

TechnicalInformationHandler

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	TechnicalInformation.Field the possible fields
static class	TechnicalInformation.Type the different types of information

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TechnicalInformation(TechnicalInformation.Type type) Initializes the information with the given type
TechnicalInformation(TechnicalInformation.Type type, String id) Initializes the information with the given type

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
TechnicalInformation	add(TechnicalInformation.Type type) Adds an empty technical information with the given type to the list of additional informations and returns the instance.
void	add(TechnicalInformation value) adds the given information to the list of additional technical informations
Enumeration	additional() returns an enumeration of all the additional technical informations (if there are any)
boolean	exists(TechnicalInformation.Field field) returns TRUE if the field is stored and has a value different from the empty string.
Enumeration	fields() returns an enumeration over all the stored fields
String	getID() returns the unique ID (either the one used in creating this instance or the automatically generated one)
String	getRevision() Returns the revision string.
TechnicalInformation.Type	getType() returns the type of this technical information
String	getValue(TechnicalInformation.Field field) returns the value associated with the given field, or empty if field is not currently stored.
boolean	hasAdditional() returns true if there are further technical informations stored in this
static void	main(String[] args) Prints some examples of technical informations if there are no commandline options given.
void	setValue(TechnicalInformation.Field field, String value) sets the value for the given field, overwrites any previously existing one.
String	toBibTex() Returns a BibTex string representing this technical information.
String	toString() Returns a plain-text string representing this technical information.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TechnicalInformation

public TechnicalInformation(TechnicalInformation.Type type)

Initializes the information with the given type

Parameters:

type - the type of this information

See Also:

TechnicalInformation.Type

TechnicalInformation

public TechnicalInformation(TechnicalInformation.Type type,
                    String id)

Initializes the information with the given type

Parameters:

type - the type of this information

id - the unique ID (for BibTex), can be empty

See Also:

TechnicalInformation.Type

Method Detail

getType

public TechnicalInformation.Type getType()

returns the type of this technical information

Returns:

the type of this information

getID

public String getID()

returns the unique ID (either the one used in creating this instance or the automatically generated one)

Returns:

the ID for this information

setValue

public void setValue(TechnicalInformation.Field field,
            String value)

sets the value for the given field, overwrites any previously existing one.

Parameters:

field - the field to set the value for

value - the value of the field

getValue

public String getValue(TechnicalInformation.Field field)

returns the value associated with the given field, or empty if field is not currently stored.

Parameters:

field - the field to retrieve the value for

Returns:

the value associated with this field, empty if not existing

exists

public boolean exists(TechnicalInformation.Field field)

returns TRUE if the field is stored and has a value different from the empty string.

Parameters:

field - the field to check

Returns:

true if a value is stored for the field and non-empty

fields

public Enumeration fields()

returns an enumeration over all the stored fields

Returns:

all currently stored fields

hasAdditional

public boolean hasAdditional()

returns true if there are further technical informations stored in this

Returns:

true if there are further technical informations available

additional

public Enumeration additional()

returns an enumeration of all the additional technical informations (if there are any)

Returns:

an enumeration over all additional technical informations

add

public void add(TechnicalInformation value)

adds the given information to the list of additional technical informations

Parameters:

value - the information to add

add

public TechnicalInformation add(TechnicalInformation.Type type)

Adds an empty technical information with the given type to the list of additional informations and returns the instance.

Parameters:

type - the type of the new information to add

Returns:

the generated information

toString

public String toString()

Returns a plain-text string representing this technical information. Note: it only returns a string based on some fields. At least AUTHOR, YEAR and TITLE are necessary.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a string representation of this information

toBibTex

public String toBibTex()

Returns a BibTex string representing this technical information. Note: this is just a very raw implementation, special characters need to be escaped manually for LaTeX.

Returns:

the BibTeX representation of this information

getRevision

public String getRevision()

Returns the revision string.

Specified by:

getRevision in interface RevisionHandler

Returns:

the revision

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws Exception

Prints some examples of technical informations if there are no commandline options given. Otherwise the information of a given TechnicalInformationHandler can be printed.

Valid options are:

-W classname
The classname of the TechnicalInformationHandler to print the information for

-bibtex
Print the information in BibTeX format

-plaintext
Print the information in plain text format

Parameters:

args - the commandline options

Throws:

Exception - if the option parsing fails