meka.experiment.filehandlers

Interface ExperimentFileHandler

All Superinterfaces:

LogSupporter, weka.core.OptionHandler, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractExperimentFileHandler, CommandLineSetup, SerializedExperiment

public interface ExperimentFileHandler
extends weka.core.OptionHandler, Serializable, LogSupporter

Interface for classes load/save experiments.

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

FracPete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getFormatDescription() A description of the file format.
String[]	getFormatExtensions() Returns the format extensions.
Experiment	read(File file) Reads an experiment from disk.
String	write(Experiment exp, File file) Writes and experiment to disk.

Methods inherited from interface weka.core.OptionHandler

getOptions, listOptions, setOptions

Methods inherited from interface meka.events.LogSupporter

addLogListener, log, removeLogListener

Method Detail

getFormatDescription

String getFormatDescription()

A description of the file format.

Returns:

the description

getFormatExtensions

String[] getFormatExtensions()

Returns the format extensions.

Returns:

the extensions (incl dot)

read

Experiment read(File file)

Reads an experiment from disk.

Parameters:

file - the file to load

Returns:

the experiment, null if failed to load

write

String write(Experiment exp,
             File file)

Writes and experiment to disk.

Parameters:

exp - the experiment to save

file - the file to save to

Returns:

null if successful, otherwise error message