macaw.businessLayer
Class DerivedVariable

java.lang.Object
  macaw.businessLayer.Variable
      macaw.businessLayer.DerivedVariable

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, Displayable

public class DerivedVariable
extends Variable

a Variable that has been created using data from one or more Variable.

Copyright 2010 Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Kevin Garwood (kgarwood@users.sourceforge.net)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class macaw.businessLayer.Variable

codeBookNumber, columnEnd, columnStart, form, notes, questionNumber

Constructor Summary

DerivedVariable()

Method Summary

void	addSourceVariable(Variable variable)
void	addSourceVariables(java.util.ArrayList<Variable> variables)
java.lang.Object	clone()
boolean	containsSourceVariable(Variable targetVariable)
static java.util.ArrayList<MacawChangeEvent>	detectFieldChanges(User user, DerivedVariable originalDerivedVariable, DerivedVariable revisedDerivedVariable)
java.util.ArrayList<Variable>	getSourceVariables()
boolean	hasSameDisplayName(Variable variable)
void	removeSourceVariable(Variable variable)
void	removeSourceVariables(java.util.ArrayList<Variable> variablesToDelete)
void	setSourceVariables(java.util.ArrayList<Variable> sourceVariables)
static void	validateFields(DerivedVariable derivedVariable)

Methods inherited from class macaw.businessLayer.Variable

addOntologyTerm, addOntologyTerms, addSupportingDocument, addSupportingDocuments, addValueLabel, cloneAttributes, containsOntologyTerm, containsSupportingDocument, createVariableSummary, detectChangesInAlternativeVariable, detectFieldChanges, getAlias, getAlternativeVariable, getAvailability, getCategory, getCleaningDescription, getCleaningStatus, getCodeBookNumber, getColumnEnd, getColumnStart, getDisplayItemIdentifier, getDisplayName, getFilePath, getForm, getIdentifier, getLabel, getName, getNotes, getOntologyTerms, getQuestionNumber, getSupportingDocuments, getValueLabels, getYear, isCleaned, isCoded, isNewRecord, removeOntologyTerm, removeOntologyTerms, removeSupportingDocument, removeSupportingDocuments, removeValueLabel, setAlias, setAlternativeVariable, setAvailability, setCategory, setCleaned, setCleaningDescription, setCleaningStatus, setCodeBookNumber, setCoded, setColumnEnd, setColumnStart, setFilePath, setForm, setIdentifier, setIsNewRecord, setLabel, setName, setNotes, setOntologyTerms, setQuestionNumber, setSupportingDocuments, setValueLabels, setYear, updateOntologyTerm, validateFields

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DerivedVariable

public DerivedVariable()

Method Detail

getSourceVariables

public java.util.ArrayList<Variable> getSourceVariables()

addSourceVariables

public void addSourceVariables(java.util.ArrayList<Variable> variables)

setSourceVariables

public void setSourceVariables(java.util.ArrayList<Variable> sourceVariables)

addSourceVariable

public void addSourceVariable(Variable variable)

removeSourceVariable

public void removeSourceVariable(Variable variable)

removeSourceVariables

public void removeSourceVariables(java.util.ArrayList<Variable> variablesToDelete)

containsSourceVariable

public boolean containsSourceVariable(Variable targetVariable)

detectFieldChanges

public static java.util.ArrayList<MacawChangeEvent> detectFieldChanges(User user,
                                                                       DerivedVariable originalDerivedVariable,
                                                                       DerivedVariable revisedDerivedVariable)

hasSameDisplayName

public boolean hasSameDisplayName(Variable variable)

validateFields

public static void validateFields(DerivedVariable derivedVariable)
                           throws MacawException

Throws:

MacawException

clone

public java.lang.Object clone()

Specified by:

clone in class Variable