org.wwbota.identification
Interface GeneralProperty

All Superinterfaces:

Named

public interface GeneralProperty

extends Named

A General Property (e.g. color, shape). This allows to classify Character objects, and to add explicit semantics to the raw Delta-style characters. Relationship between GeneralProperty and Character : a GeneralProperty is some kind of template Character, that is, it can not be used directly as a Character.

Method Summary

Feature

createFeature(Organ organ) Factory for a Feature having this GeneralProperty and the given Organ.

Methods inherited from interface org.wwbota.identification.Named

getName

Method Detail

createFeature

public Feature createFeature(Organ organ)

Factory for a Feature having this GeneralProperty and the given Organ. For instance if the returned Feature is a subtype of EnumerationCharacter, to get a closed list of values you use EnumerationCharacter.getPossibleValues(); if such a list is not available it returns an empty list. Since GeneralProperty is only an interface, the container of GeneralProperties will represent a context so that, for instance, the Possible Values returned will be different in different geographical or taxonomic contexts.