baseCode.common
Class Distanceable

java.lang.Object
  baseCode.common.Visitable
      baseCode.common.Distanceable

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable

Direct Known Subclasses:

Cluster

public abstract class Distanceable

extends Visitable

An object whose distance to other objects can be measured. It is up to the implementer to determine that the two objects being compared are of the same type.

Copyright (c) 2004 Columbia University

Version:

$Id: Distanceable.java,v 1.2 2004/08/02 15:03:43 pavlidis Exp $

Author:

pavlidis

Constructor Summary

Distanceable()

Method Summary

abstract double	distanceTo(Distanceable a)
abstract java.util.Collection	toCollection() Return a collections view of the object.

Methods inherited from class baseCode.common.Visitable

isVisited, mark, unMark

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Constructor Detail

Distanceable

public Distanceable()

Method Detail

distanceTo

public abstract double distanceTo(Distanceable a)

Parameters:

a -

Returns:

toCollection

public abstract java.util.Collection toCollection()

Return a collections view of the object. The implementer has to make sure the Collection is of Distanceables.

Returns:

@todo not very elegant...