net.sf.basedb.util.export.spotdata
Interface AssayField

All Superinterfaces:

ExportableField

All Known Implementing Classes:

AnnotationAssayField, AssayPropertyField

public interface AssayField
extends ExportableField

Represents a bioassay field that is going to be exported. An implementation needs to provide the following information and services:

• A way to extract the needed values based from a bioassay.
• A Formatter that is used to format the values that are extracted before they are written to the file
• A title that is used as a column header for the data

Version:

2.12

Author:

Nicklas

Last modified

$Date: 2010-08-03 11:11:54 +0200 (Tue, 03 Aug 2010) $

Method Summary

Collection<?>	getAssayValue(DbControl dc, BioAssay assay) Get the values for the given bioassay.
boolean	isAnnotation() A boolean flag indicating if the field is an annotation or not.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.basedb.util.export.spotdata.ExportableField

getFormatter, getTitle, getType

Method Detail

getAssayValue

Collection<?> getAssayValue(DbControl dc,
                            BioAssay assay)

Get the values for the given bioassay.

Parameters:

dc - The DbControl that is used for database access

assay - The bioassay to get the value(s) from

Returns:

A collection with one or more values, or null or an empty collection if there is no value for the given bioassay

isAnnotation

boolean isAnnotation()

A boolean flag indicating if the field is an annotation or not.

Returns:

TRUE if the field is an annotation, FALSE if not

Since:

2.16