org.openprovenance.prov.model

Interface Attribute

All Superinterfaces:

TypedValue

All Known Subinterfaces:

Location, Role, Type, Value

public interface Attribute
extends TypedValue

Interface for a PROV attribute-value pair.

Attribute-value pairs are meant to provide further descriptions to (most) Statement.

Author:

lavm

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	Attribute.AttributeKind Enumerated type for all types of attributes.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Attribute.AttributeKind	getAttributeKind(QualifiedName q)
Object	getConvertedValue() Returns the value of an Attribute as a Java Object.
QualifiedName	getElementName()
Attribute.AttributeKind	getKind()
QualifiedName	getQualifiedName(Attribute.AttributeKind kind)
QualifiedName	getType() Get the type of an Attribute
Object	getValue() Get the type of an Attribute
String	toNotationString() A method to generate the prov-n representation of an attribute ex:attr="value" %% xsd:type

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.TypedValue

convertValueToObject, setType, setValue, setValue, setValue, setValueFromObject

Method Detail

getQualifiedName

QualifiedName getQualifiedName(Attribute.AttributeKind kind)

getAttributeKind

Attribute.AttributeKind getAttributeKind(QualifiedName q)

getElementName

QualifiedName getElementName()

getKind

Attribute.AttributeKind getKind()

getValue

Object getValue()

Get the type of an Attribute

Specified by:

getValue in interface TypedValue

Returns:

possible object of String, QualifiedName, LangString

getType

QualifiedName getType()

Get the type of an Attribute

Specified by:

getType in interface TypedValue

Returns:

possible instance of QualifiedName

toNotationString

String toNotationString()

A method to generate the prov-n representation of an attribute ex:attr="value" %% xsd:type

getConvertedValue

Object getConvertedValue()

Returns the value of an Attribute as a Java Object.

Specified by:

getConvertedValue in interface TypedValue

Returns:

possible object is Object