macaw.businessLayer
Class RawVariable

java.lang.Object
  macaw.businessLayer.Variable
      macaw.businessLayer.RawVariable

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, Displayable

public class RawVariable
extends Variable

a Variable that relates to a particular question on a particular form of a particular survey that forms part of the NSHD’s ongoing study. The majority of RawVariables are found on paper-based index cards, some of which are decades old.

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

RawVariable()

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	clone()
static java.util.ArrayList<MacawChangeEvent>	detectFieldChanges(User user, RawVariable originalRawVariable, RawVariable revisedRawVariable)
boolean	hasSameDisplayName(Variable variable)
static void	validateFields(RawVariable rawVariable)

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

RawVariable

public RawVariable()

Method Detail

detectFieldChanges

public static java.util.ArrayList<MacawChangeEvent> detectFieldChanges(User user,
                                                                       RawVariable originalRawVariable,
                                                                       RawVariable revisedRawVariable)

hasSameDisplayName

public boolean hasSameDisplayName(Variable variable)

validateFields

public static void validateFields(RawVariable rawVariable)
                           throws MacawException

Throws:

MacawException

clone

public java.lang.Object clone()

Specified by:

clone in class Variable