jebl.evolution.taxa
Class Taxon

java.lang.Object
  jebl.evolution.taxa.Taxon

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparable, Attributable

public final class Taxon
extends Object
implements Attributable, Comparable

Author:

Andrew Rambaut, Alexei Drummond

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface jebl.util.Attributable

Attributable.Utils

Method Summary

int	compareTo(Object o)
boolean	equals(Taxon t)
static Set<Taxon>	getAllTaxa()
Object	getAttribute(String name)
Map<String,Object>	getAttributeMap() Gets the entire attribute map.
Set<String>	getAttributeNames()
String	getName() get the name of the taxon
static Taxon	getTaxon(String name) A static method that returns a Taxon object with the given name.
TaxonomicLevel	getTaxonomicLevel() get the taxonomic level of the taxon
int	hashCode()
void	removeAttribute(String name)
void	setAttribute(String name, Object value) Sets an named attribute for this object.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

get the name of the taxon

Returns:

the name

getTaxonomicLevel

public TaxonomicLevel getTaxonomicLevel()

get the taxonomic level of the taxon

Returns:

the taxonomic level

setAttribute

public void setAttribute(String name,
                         Object value)

Description copied from interface: Attributable

Sets an named attribute for this object.

Specified by:

setAttribute in interface Attributable

Parameters:

name - the name of the attribute.

value - the new value of the attribute.

getAttribute

public Object getAttribute(String name)

Specified by:

getAttribute in interface Attributable

Parameters:

name - the name of the attribute of interest.

Returns:

an object representing the named attributed for this object.

removeAttribute

public void removeAttribute(String name)

Specified by:

removeAttribute in interface Attributable

Parameters:

name - name of attribute to remove

getAttributeNames

public Set<String> getAttributeNames()

Specified by:

getAttributeNames in interface Attributable

Returns:

an array of the attributeNames that this object has.

getAttributeMap

public Map<String,Object> getAttributeMap()

Description copied from interface: Attributable

Gets the entire attribute map.

Specified by:

getAttributeMap in interface Attributable

Returns:

an unmodifiable map

getAllTaxa

public static Set<Taxon> getAllTaxa()

Returns:

a Set containing all the currently created Taxon objects.

getTaxon

public static Taxon getTaxon(String name)

A static method that returns a Taxon object with the given name. If this has already been created then the same instance will be returned.

Parameters:

name -

Returns:

the taxon

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

compareTo

public int compareTo(Object o)

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable

equals

public boolean equals(Taxon t)

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object