01 /*
02 * AbstractOntoGazetteer.java
03 *
04 * Copyright (c) 2002, The University of Sheffield.
05 *
06 * This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
07 * software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
08 * Version 2, June1991.
09 *
10 * A copy of this licence is included in the distribution in the file
11 * licence.html, and is also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html.
12 *
13 * borislav popov 02/2002
14 *
15 */
16 package gate.creole.gazetteer;
17
18 /**AbstratOntoGazetteer
19 * This class implements the methods common for all ontology-aware gazetteers.*/
20 public abstract class AbstractOntoGazetteer
21 extends AbstractGazetteer implements OntoGazetteer {
22
23 /** the url of the mapping definition */
24 protected java.net.URL mappingURL;
25
26 /** class name of the linear gazetteer to be called */
27 protected String gazetteerName;
28
29 /** reference to the linear gazetteer */
30 protected Gazetteer gaz;
31
32 /**
33 * Sets the class name of the linear gazetteer to be loaded.
34 * @param name class name of a Gazetteer
35 */
36 public void setGazetteerName(String name) {
37 gazetteerName = name;
38 }
39
40 /**
41 * Gets the class name of the linear gazetteer
42 * @return the class name of the linear gazetteer
43 */
44 public String getGazetteerName() {
45 return gazetteerName;
46 }
47
48 /**
49 * Sets the URL of the mapping definition
50 * @param url the URL of the mapping definition
51 */
52 public void setMappingURL(java.net.URL url) {
53 mappingURL = url;
54 }
55
56 /**
57 * Gets the URL of the mapping definition
58 * @return the URL of the mapping definition
59 */
60 public java.net.URL getMappingURL() {
61 return mappingURL;
62 }
63
64 /**
65 * Gets the linear gazetteer
66 * @return the linear gazetteer
67 */
68 public Gazetteer getGazetteer(){
69 return gaz;
70 }
71
72 /**
73 * Sets the linear gazetteer
74 * @param gaze the linear gazetteer to be associated with this onto gazetteer.
75 */
76 public void setGazetteer(Gazetteer gaze) {
77 gaz = gaze;
78 }
79
80 /**Overrides {@link gate.creole.gazetteer.Gazetteer}
81 * and retrieves the linear definition from the underlying
82 * linear gazetteer*/
83 public LinearDefinition getLinearDefinition() {
84 if (null == gaz){
85 throw new gate.util.GateRuntimeException(
86 "linear gazetteer should be set before \n"+
87 "attempting to retrieve the linear definition");
88 }
89 return gaz.getLinearDefinition();
90 }
91
92 } // class AbstractOntoGazetteer
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