IPreprocessingFunction (LIMES Core Library 1.7.9 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

APreprocessingFunction, CleanIri, CleanNumber, Concat, RegexReplace, RemoveBraces, RemoveLanguageTag, RemoveNonAlphanumeric, RenameProperty, Replace, Split, ToCelsius, ToFahrenheit, ToLowercase, ToUppercase, ToWktPoint, UriAsString
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public interface IPreprocessingFunction
```

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Instance`	`applyFunction(Instance i, String property, String... arguments)`	Applies the function to this instance
`boolean`	`isComplex()`
`int`	`maxNumberOfArguments()`
`int`	`minNumberOfArguments()`

- Method Detail
  - applyFunction
```
Instance applyFunction(Instance i,
                       String property,
                       String... arguments)
```
    Applies the function to this instance
    
    Parameters:
    
    i - the instance that will be preprocessed
    
    property - for unary operators this is the property on which the function will be applied, for n-ary fucntions this is the name of the new property where the result of the preprocessing will be stored
    
    arguments - some functions take arguments
    
    Returns:
    
    the preprocessed instance
  - minNumberOfArguments
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int minNumberOfArguments()
```
  - maxNumberOfArguments
```
int maxNumberOfArguments()
```
  - isComplex
```
boolean isComplex()
```