edu.berkeley.guir.ptk.data
Class DataObject

java.lang.Object
  edu.berkeley.guir.ptk.data.Data
      edu.berkeley.guir.ptk.data.DataObject

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class DataObject

extends Data

Contains data as a Object. It inherits an id field, which is set by the creator of the object and indentifies it.

Author:

tmatthew

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

java.lang.Object

data The Object data for this object.

Fields inherited from class edu.berkeley.guir.ptk.data.Data

id

Constructor Summary

DataObject(java.lang.Object data)

DataObject(java.lang.Object data, java.lang.String id)
Constructor.

Method Summary

Data	copy() Returns a copy if this Data object.
boolean	dataEquals(Data n) Compares the data fields of this Data and the given Data for equality.
boolean	equals(Data n) Compares this Data and the given Data for equality.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

data

public java.lang.Object data

The Object data for this object.

Constructor Detail

DataObject

public DataObject(java.lang.Object data,
                  java.lang.String id)

Constructor.

Parameters:

data - the Object data for this object

id - indentifies this data object Some example String ids: "location," "name," "forecast." Some data ids are already specified in PTKConstants

DataObject

public DataObject(java.lang.Object data)

Method Detail

equals

public boolean equals(Data n)

Compares this Data and the given Data for equality.

Specified by:

equals in class Data

Parameters:

n -

Returns:

boolean true if the given Data has the same data and id as this Data

dataEquals

public boolean dataEquals(Data n)

Compares the data fields of this Data and the given Data for equality.

Specified by:

dataEquals in class Data

Returns:

boolean true if the given Data has the same data as this Data

copy

public Data copy()

Description copied from class: Data

Returns a copy if this Data object.

Specified by:

copy in class Data

Returns: