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Interface IPersistentRepresentation

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractSupergene, BaseChromosome, BooleanGene, Chromosome, CompositeGene, DoubleGene, FixedBinaryGene, IntegerGene, MapGene, MutipleIntegerGene, Population, SetGene, StringGene

public interface IPersistentRepresentation

Interface for objects that can represent themselves as a string and parse this string later on to generate a new instance of themselves.

Since:

3.2

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static java.lang.String	CVS_REVISION String containing the CVS revision.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getPersistentRepresentation() Returns a persistent representation of an entity (such as a chromosome or a gene).
void	setValueFromPersistentRepresentation(java.lang.String a_representation) Counterpart of getPersistentRepresentation.

Field Detail

CVS_REVISION

static final java.lang.String CVS_REVISION

String containing the CVS revision. Read out via reflection!

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getPersistentRepresentation

java.lang.String getPersistentRepresentation()

Returns a persistent representation of an entity (such as a chromosome or a gene).

Returns:

string representation of current state

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

Since:

3.2

setValueFromPersistentRepresentation

void setValueFromPersistentRepresentation(java.lang.String a_representation)
                                   throws UnsupportedRepresentationException

Counterpart of getPersistentRepresentation.

Parameters:

a_representation - the string representation retrieved from a prior call to the getPersistentRepresentation() method

Throws:

UnsupportedRepresentationException

Since:

3.2