org.evolvica.core.common
Class BinaryFileWriter

java.lang.Object
  org.evolvica.engine.AbstractOperator
      org.evolvica.core.common.AbstractGeneticOperator
          org.evolvica.core.common.AbstractWriter
              org.evolvica.core.common.FileWriter
                  org.evolvica.core.common.BinaryFileWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

IGeneticOperator, IOperator, IProcessor, java.io.Serializable

public class BinaryFileWriter

extends FileWriter

Processor for saving individual sets to files in a binary format. This processor performs a serialization on the individual set. The set can be restored later using a BinaryFileInitializer}. Everytime the write() method is invoked the set is written to a different file.

Since:

0.4.0

Version:

$Revision: 1.9 $ $Date: 2004/05/26 11:57:58 $

Author:

Andreas Rummler

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.evolvica.core.common.FileWriter

body, directory, suffix

Fields inherited from class org.evolvica.engine.AbstractOperator

descriptor, element, id, name

Constructor Summary

BinaryFileWriter()
Constructor.

BinaryFileWriter(java.lang.String body, java.lang.String suffix)
Constructor with filename body.

Method Summary

void	write(IIndividualSet set) Saves the individual set to a file.

Methods inherited from class org.evolvica.core.common.FileWriter

getBody, getDirectory, getSuffix, setBody, setDirectory, setSuffix

Methods inherited from class org.evolvica.core.common.AbstractWriter

process

Methods inherited from class org.evolvica.engine.AbstractOperator

attachDescriptor, attachElement, descriptor, element, getId, getName, setId, setName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.evolvica.engine.IOperator

attachDescriptor, attachElement, descriptor, element, getId, getName, setId, setName

Constructor Detail

BinaryFileWriter

public BinaryFileWriter()

Constructor.

BinaryFileWriter

public BinaryFileWriter(java.lang.String body,
                        java.lang.String suffix)

Constructor with filename body.

Parameters:

body - body of filename to write to

suffix - suffix to be used

Method Detail

write

public void write(IIndividualSet set)

Saves the individual set to a file. The set is saved to a file named <filename body>_<identifier>.<suffix>. The identifier is generated automatically to prevent overwriting old files. The default suffix is .bin.

Parameters:

set - individual set to be saved