meka.experiment.filehandlers

Class SerializedExperiment

java.lang.Object

meka.events.LogObject

meka.experiment.filehandlers.AbstractExperimentFileHandler

meka.experiment.filehandlers.SerializedExperiment

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, LogSupporter, ExperimentFileHandler, weka.core.OptionHandler

public class SerializedExperiment
extends AbstractExperimentFileHandler

Stores the experiment as a Java serialized object.

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

FracPete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class meka.events.LogObject

m_Debug, m_LogListeners

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SerializedExperiment()

Method Summary

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

Methods inherited from class meka.experiment.filehandlers.AbstractExperimentFileHandler

getOptions, listOptions, setOptions

Methods inherited from class meka.events.LogObject

addLogListener, debug, getLogListeners, handleException, log, removeLogListener

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface meka.events.LogSupporter

addLogListener, log, removeLogListener

Constructor Detail

SerializedExperiment

public SerializedExperiment()

Method Detail

globalInfo

public String globalInfo()

Description to be displayed in the GUI.

Specified by:

globalInfo in class AbstractExperimentFileHandler

Returns:

the description

getFormatDescription

public String getFormatDescription()

A description of the file format.

Returns:

the description

getFormatExtensions

public String[] getFormatExtensions()

Returns the format extensions.

Returns:

the extensions (incl dot)

read

public Experiment read(File file)

Reads an experiment from disk.

Specified by:

read in interface ExperimentFileHandler

Specified by:

read in class AbstractExperimentFileHandler

Parameters:

file - the file to load

Returns:

the experiment, null if failed to load

write

public String write(Experiment exp,
                    File file)

Writes and experiment to disk.

Specified by:

write in interface ExperimentFileHandler

Specified by:

write in class AbstractExperimentFileHandler

Parameters:

exp - the experiment to save

file - the file to save to

Returns:

null if successful, otherwise error message