edu.washington.NVisF.dataIO
Class DataField

java.lang.Object
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public class DataField

extends java.lang.Object

A DataField object represents meta-info regarding a field for a particular data object. Currently this includes the name and type of the field, and the only known types are scalars and vectors.

See Also:

TypeInfo, ObjectInfo

Field Summary

static int	SCALAR_FIELD_ELEMENT identifies scalar data fields.
static int	VECTOR_FIELD_ELEMENT identifies vector data fields.

Constructor Summary

DataField(java.lang.String name, int varType)
Constructs a DataField from the given name and type, where varType is one of the constants defined in this class.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName() Returns the name of this data field.
int	getvarType() Returns the type of this data field.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

SCALAR_FIELD_ELEMENT

public static final int SCALAR_FIELD_ELEMENT

identifies scalar data fields.

VECTOR_FIELD_ELEMENT

public static final int VECTOR_FIELD_ELEMENT

identifies vector data fields.

Constructor Detail

DataField

public DataField(java.lang.String name,
                 int varType)

Constructs a DataField from the given name and type, where varType is one of the constants defined in this class.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if name is null

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException - if varType is invalid

See Also:

SCALAR_FIELD_ELEMENT, VECTOR_FIELD_ELEMENT

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns the name of this data field.

Returns:

String the name

getvarType

public int getvarType()

Returns the type of this data field.

Returns:

int either SCALAR_FIELD_ELEMENT or VECTOR_FIELD_ELEMENT