org.jscience.biology.taxonomy
Class AbstractTaxon

java.lang.Object
  org.jscience.biology.taxonomy.AbstractTaxon

All Implemented Interfaces:

Taxon

Direct Known Subclasses:

SimpleTaxon, WeakTaxon

public abstract class AbstractTaxon
extends java.lang.Object
implements Taxon

An abstract implementation of Taxon.

It is left up to the impementor to provide methods for accessing the parent and children. All other state is provided for here. A common pattern would be to route any Taxon.getParent() call back via a method on the TaxonFactory used to generate this instance.

Constructor Summary

AbstractTaxon(java.lang.String scientificName, java.lang.String commonName)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object o) DOCUMENT ME!
double	getAppearance() DOCUMENT ME!
java.lang.String	getCommonName() DOCUMENT ME!
java.util.Vector	getExtendedName() DOCUMENT ME!
double	getExtinction() DOCUMENT ME!
java.lang.String	getScientificName() DOCUMENT ME!
void	setAppearance(double apparition) DOCUMENT ME!
void	setCommonName(java.lang.String commonName) DOCUMENT ME!
void	setExtinction(double disparition) DOCUMENT ME!
void	setScientificName(java.lang.String scientificName) DOCUMENT ME!
java.lang.String	toString() DOCUMENT ME!

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.jscience.biology.taxonomy.Taxon

getChildren, getParent, isLeaf, isRoot

Constructor Detail

AbstractTaxon

public AbstractTaxon(java.lang.String scientificName,
                     java.lang.String commonName)

Method Detail

getCommonName

public java.lang.String getCommonName()

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Specified by:

getCommonName in interface Taxon

Returns:

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setCommonName

public void setCommonName(java.lang.String commonName)

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Parameters:

commonName - DOCUMENT ME!

getScientificName

public java.lang.String getScientificName()

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Specified by:

getScientificName in interface Taxon

Returns:

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setScientificName

public void setScientificName(java.lang.String scientificName)

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Parameters:

scientificName - DOCUMENT ME!

getAppearance

public double getAppearance()

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Specified by:

getAppearance in interface Taxon

Returns:

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setAppearance

public void setAppearance(double apparition)

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Parameters:

apparition - DOCUMENT ME!

getExtinction

public double getExtinction()

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Specified by:

getExtinction in interface Taxon

Returns:

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setExtinction

public void setExtinction(double disparition)

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Parameters:

disparition - DOCUMENT ME!

getExtendedName

public java.util.Vector getExtendedName()

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Specified by:

getExtendedName in interface Taxon

Returns:

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equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object o)

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Specified by:

equals in interface Taxon

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object

Parameters:

o - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

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toString

public java.lang.String toString()

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Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

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