org.jactr.core.utils
Interface IMetaContainer

All Known Subinterfaces:

IChunk, IModel

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractChunk, BasicModel, DefaultChunk5

public interface IMetaContainer

interface for an object that can carry arbitrary transient (not persisted to file) data - Chunks permit this for internal bookkeeping

Author:

harrison

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	getMetaData(java.lang.String key) Gets the MetaData attribute of the MetaContainer object
java.util.Collection<java.lang.String>	getMetaDataKeys() return all the keys
void	setMetaData(java.lang.String key, java.lang.Object value) Sets the MetaData attribute of the MetaContainer object

Method Detail

getMetaData

java.lang.Object getMetaData(java.lang.String key)

Gets the MetaData attribute of the MetaContainer object

Parameters:

key - Description of Parameter

Returns:

The MetaData value

Since:

setMetaData

void setMetaData(java.lang.String key,
                 java.lang.Object value)

Sets the MetaData attribute of the MetaContainer object

Parameters:

key - The new MetaData value

value - The new MetaData value

Since:

getMetaDataKeys

java.util.Collection<java.lang.String> getMetaDataKeys()

return all the keys

Returns: