org.biojava.ontology
Class Term.Impl

java.lang.Object
  org.biojava.utils.AbstractChangeable
      org.biojava.ontology.AbstractTerm
          org.biojava.ontology.Term.Impl

All Implemented Interfaces:

Annotatable, Changeable, Serializable, Term

Direct Known Subclasses:

Variable.Impl

Enclosing class:

Term

public static class Term.Impl

extends AbstractTerm

implements Term, Serializable

Simple in-memory implementation of an ontology term.

See Also:

Serialized Form

For developers:

This can be used to implement Ontology.createTerm

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes inherited from class org.biojava.ontology.Term

Term.Impl

Nested classes inherited from class org.biojava.bio.Annotatable

Annotatable.AnnotationForwarder

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.biojava.ontology.Term

ONTOLOGY

Fields inherited from interface org.biojava.bio.Annotatable

ANNOTATION

Constructor Summary

Term.Impl(Ontology ontology, String name, String description)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj)
Annotation	getAnnotation() Should return the associated annotation object.
String	getDescription() Return a human-readable description of this term, or the empty string if none is available.
String	getName() Return the name of this term.
Ontology	getOntology() Return the ontology in which this term exists.
int	hashCode()
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class org.biojava.ontology.AbstractTerm

getChangeSupport

Methods inherited from class org.biojava.utils.AbstractChangeable

addChangeListener, addChangeListener, generateChangeSupport, hasListeners, hasListeners, isUnchanging, removeChangeListener, removeChangeListener

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.biojava.utils.Changeable

addChangeListener, addChangeListener, isUnchanging, removeChangeListener, removeChangeListener

Constructor Detail

Term.Impl

public Term.Impl(Ontology ontology,
                 String name,
                 String description)

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Description copied from interface: Term

Return the name of this term.

Specified by:

getName in interface Term

getDescription

public String getDescription()

Description copied from interface: Term

Return a human-readable description of this term, or the empty string if none is available.

Specified by:

getDescription in interface Term

getOntology

public Ontology getOntology()

Description copied from interface: Term

Return the ontology in which this term exists.

Specified by:

getOntology in interface Term

toString

public String toString()

getAnnotation

public Annotation getAnnotation()

Description copied from interface: Annotatable

Should return the associated annotation object.

Specified by:

getAnnotation in interface Annotatable

Returns:

an Annotation object, never null

hashCode

public int hashCode()

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)