org.biojava.bio.taxa
Class SimpleTaxon

java.lang.Object
  org.biojava.utils.AbstractChangeable
      org.biojava.bio.taxa.AbstractTaxon
          org.biojava.bio.taxa.SimpleTaxon

All Implemented Interfaces:

Annotatable, Taxon, Changeable

Deprecated. replaced by classes in org.biojavax.bio.taxa

public class SimpleTaxon
extends AbstractTaxon

A no-frills implementatation of Taxon.

A TaxonFactory implementation will probably wish to sub-class this and add package-private accessors for the parent and children fields as well as a pacakge-private constructor.

Author:

Matthew Pocock

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.biojava.bio.Annotatable

Annotatable.AnnotationForwarder

Field Summary

protected Set	children Deprecated.
protected Taxon	parent Deprecated.

Fields inherited from interface org.biojava.bio.taxa.Taxon

CHANGE_COMMON_NAME, CHANGE_SCIENTIFIC_NAME

Fields inherited from interface org.biojava.bio.Annotatable

ANNOTATION

Constructor Summary

protected	SimpleTaxon() Deprecated.
protected	SimpleTaxon(String scientificName, String commonName) Deprecated. Create a new instance with no parent, no children and given scientific and common names.

Method Summary

Set	getChildren() Deprecated. The children of this Taxon.
Taxon	getParent() Deprecated. The parent of this Taxon.

Methods inherited from class org.biojava.bio.taxa.AbstractTaxon

equals, getAnnotation, getChangeSupport, getCommonName, getScientificName, hashCode, setCommonName, setScientificName, toString

Methods inherited from class org.biojava.utils.AbstractChangeable

addChangeListener, addChangeListener, generateChangeSupport, hasListeners, hasListeners, isUnchanging, removeChangeListener, removeChangeListener

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.biojava.utils.Changeable

addChangeListener, addChangeListener, isUnchanging, removeChangeListener, removeChangeListener

Field Detail

parent

protected Taxon parent

Deprecated.

children

protected Set children

Deprecated.

Constructor Detail

SimpleTaxon

protected SimpleTaxon()

Deprecated.

SimpleTaxon

protected SimpleTaxon(String scientificName,
                      String commonName)

Deprecated.

Create a new instance with no parent, no children and given scientific and common names.

Method Detail

getParent

public Taxon getParent()

Deprecated.

Description copied from interface: Taxon

The parent of this Taxon.

Taxa live within a tree data-structure, so every taxon has a single parent except for the root type. This has the null parent.

Returns:

the parent Taxon, or null if this is the root type.

getChildren

public Set getChildren()

Deprecated.

Description copied from interface: Taxon

The children of this Taxon.

Taxa live within a tree data-structure, so every taxon has zero or more children. In the case of zero children, the empty set is returned.

? read-only ? dynamicaly updated with taxon object ? copy of data ?

Returns:

the Set (possibly empty) of all child Taxa