edu.mit.jwi.item

Class ExceptionEntryID

java.lang.Object

edu.mit.jwi.item.ExceptionEntryID

All Implemented Interfaces:

IExceptionEntryID, IHasPOS, IItemID<IExceptionEntry>, Serializable

public class ExceptionEntryID
extends Object
implements IExceptionEntryID

Default implementation of IExceptionEntryID.

Since:

JWI 1.0

Version:

2.4.0

Author:

Mark A. Finlayson

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ExceptionEntryID(String surfaceForm, POS pos) Creates a new exception entry id with the specified information.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	equals(Object obj)
POS	getPOS() Returns the associated part of speech for this object.
String	getSurfaceForm() Returns the surface form (i.e., not the root form) of the word for which a morphological exception entry is desired.
int	hashCode()
static ExceptionEntryID	parseExceptionEntryID(String value) Convenience method for transforming the result of the toString() method back into an IExceptionEntryID.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ExceptionEntryID

public ExceptionEntryID(String surfaceForm,
                        POS pos)

Creates a new exception entry id with the specified information.

Parameters:

surfaceForm - the surface form for the entry

pos - the part of speech for the entry

Throws:

NullPointerException - if either argument is null

IllegalArgumentException - if the surface form is empty or all whitespace

Since:

JWI 1.0

Method Detail

getSurfaceForm

public String getSurfaceForm()

Description copied from interface: IExceptionEntryID

Returns the surface form (i.e., not the root form) of the word for which a morphological exception entry is desired. Because all surface forms in the exception files are lower case, the string returned by this call is also lower case.

Specified by:

getSurfaceForm in interface IExceptionEntryID

Returns:

the lowercase surface form of the exception entry indicated by this id object

getPOS

public POS getPOS()

Description copied from interface: IHasPOS

Returns the associated part of speech for this object. If this object is not associated with any particular part of speech, this method may return null.

Specified by:

getPOS in interface IHasPOS

Returns:

The associated part of speech, or null if none.

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

parseExceptionEntryID

public static ExceptionEntryID parseExceptionEntryID(String value)

Convenience method for transforming the result of the toString() method back into an IExceptionEntryID.

Parameters:

value - the string to parse

Returns:

the derived exception entry id

Throws:

NullPointerException - if the specified string is null

IllegalArgumentException - if the specified string does not conform to an exception entry id

Since:

JWI 2.2.0