org.embl.ebi.escience.baclava.factory
Class DataThingFactory

java.lang.Object
  org.embl.ebi.escience.baclava.factory.DataThingFactory

public class DataThingFactory
extends java.lang.Object

A collection of static methods to build DataThings from various other Java object types.

Author:

Tom Oinn

Constructor Summary

DataThingFactory()

Method Summary

static DataThing	bake(byte[] theByteArray) For byte arrays store the byte array as is
static DataThing	bake(byte[][] theByteArrayArray) For arrays of byte arrays store each byte array in a List
static DataThing	bake(java.lang.Object theObject)
static DataThing	bake(java.lang.String theString) Easy for String objects, everything already recognizes them so no custom code required.
static DataThing	bake(java.lang.String[] theStringArray) For String arrays convert the array to a List and store that.
static DataThing	bakeForSoaplab(java.util.List theList) Bake a List of Lists into a List of byte[]
static java.lang.Object	convertObject(java.lang.Object theObject)
static DataThing	fetchFromURL(java.net.URL url)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DataThingFactory

public DataThingFactory()

Method Detail

fetchFromURL

public static DataThing fetchFromURL(java.net.URL url)
                              throws java.io.IOException

Throws:

java.io.IOException

bake

public static DataThing bake(java.lang.Object theObject)

bake

public static DataThing bake(java.lang.String theString)

Easy for String objects, everything already recognizes them so no custom code required.

bake

public static DataThing bake(java.lang.String[] theStringArray)

For String arrays convert the array to a List and store that.

bake

public static DataThing bake(byte[] theByteArray)

For byte arrays store the byte array as is

bake

public static DataThing bake(byte[][] theByteArrayArray)

For arrays of byte arrays store each byte array in a List

bakeForSoaplab

public static DataThing bakeForSoaplab(java.util.List theList)

Bake a List of Lists into a List of byte[]

convertObject

public static java.lang.Object convertObject(java.lang.Object theObject)