edu.udo.cs.miningmart.m4
Interface ConceptualDatatypes

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ConceptualDatatypes

public interface ConceptualDatatypes

Access to the conceptual datatypes used in M4.

Version:

$Id: ConceptualDatatypes.java,v 1.4 2006/09/27 14:59:57 euler Exp $

Author:

Timm Euler, Martin Scholz

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	CDT_BINARY
static java.lang.String	CDT_CATEGORIAL
static java.lang.String	CDT_CONSTANT
static java.lang.String	CDT_KEYATTRIB
static java.lang.String	CDT_NOMINAL
static java.lang.String	CDT_NUMERIC
static java.lang.String	CDT_ORDINAL
static java.lang.String	CDT_SCALAR
static java.lang.String	CDT_SPATIAL
static java.lang.String	CDT_TIME
static java.lang.String	CDT_TIMEGROUP
static java.lang.String[]	CDTYPES
static java.lang.String[][]	datatypeCompatibilities Mapping listing all compatible pairs of datatypes, where the left datatype is more general than the right one.

Method Summary

long	getIdForName(java.lang.String name)
java.lang.String	getNameForId(long id)

Field Detail

CDT_NOMINAL

static final java.lang.String CDT_NOMINAL

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CDT_CATEGORIAL

static final java.lang.String CDT_CATEGORIAL

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CDT_KEYATTRIB

static final java.lang.String CDT_KEYATTRIB

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CDT_CONSTANT

static final java.lang.String CDT_CONSTANT

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CDT_TIMEGROUP

static final java.lang.String CDT_TIMEGROUP

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CDT_SPATIAL

static final java.lang.String CDT_SPATIAL

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CDT_NUMERIC

static final java.lang.String CDT_NUMERIC

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CDT_ORDINAL

static final java.lang.String CDT_ORDINAL

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CDT_SCALAR

static final java.lang.String CDT_SCALAR

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CDT_TIME

static final java.lang.String CDT_TIME

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CDT_BINARY

static final java.lang.String CDT_BINARY

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CDTYPES

static final java.lang.String[] CDTYPES

datatypeCompatibilities

static final java.lang.String[][] datatypeCompatibilities

Mapping listing all compatible pairs of datatypes, where the left datatype is more general than the right one.

Method Detail

getIdForName

long getIdForName(java.lang.String name)

Parameters:

name - the name of a conceptual datatype (case senitive)

Returns:

the id representing this datatype or 0 if not found

getNameForId

java.lang.String getNameForId(long id)

Parameters:

id - the ID of a conceptual datatype

Returns:

the conceptual datatype's name