Repository /Rseslib/rseslib-3.0.2.jar:rseslib.processing.transformation.AbstractAttributeTransformer

/*
 * $RCSfile: AbstractAttributeTransformer.java,v $
 * $Revision: 1.13 $
 * $Date: 2007/06/30 17:30:33 $
 * $Author: wojna $
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 2002 - 2007 Logic Group, Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University
 * 
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 *  Rseslib is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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package rseslib.processing.transformation;

import java.io.Serializable;

import rseslib.structure.attribute.Header;
import rseslib.structure.data.DoubleData;
import rseslib.structure.data.DoubleDataObject;

/**
 * AttributeTransformer converts attribute values
 * for particular attributes in double data.
 * Defines the methods transform()
 * on the base of the methods from the interface DoubleData.
 *
 * @author      Arkadiusz Wojna
 */
public abstract class AbstractAttributeTransformer implements AttributeTransformer, Serializable
{
	/** Header of transformed objects. */
	Header m_Header;

	/**
	 * Constructor.
	 * 
	 * @param attributes Header of new transformed objects.
	 */
	public AbstractAttributeTransformer(Header attributes)
	{
		m_Header = attributes;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Constructor to be used only for deserialization.
	 */
	public AbstractAttributeTransformer()
	{
	}
	
	/**
     * Transforms double data changing the original data object.
     *
     * @param dObj Data object to be transformed.
     */
    public void transform(DoubleData dObj)
    {
        for (int att = 0; att < dObj.attributes().noOfAttr(); att++)
        	dObj.set(att, get(dObj.get(att), att));
    }

    /**
     * Transforms double data to new data object and returns the new object.
     * The orgininal data remains unchanged.
     *
     * @param dObj Data object to be transformed.
     * @return     Data object with transformed attribute values.
     */
    public DoubleData transformToNew(DoubleData dObj)
    {
        DoubleData newDObj = new DoubleDataObject(m_Header);
        for (int att = 0; att < dObj.attributes().noOfAttr(); att++)
        	newDObj.set(att, get(dObj.get(att), att));
        return newDObj;
    }
}