org.paces.Stata.DataRecords

Class RecordFactory

java.lang.Object

org.paces.Stata.DataRecords.RecordFactory

public class RecordFactory
extends java.lang.Object

Object used to initialize a DataRecord type object given an observation ID, a Meta class object, and a string argument to define the return type.

Version:

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Author:

Billy Buchanan

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RecordFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Record	recordFactory(java.lang.String type, java.lang.Long obid, Meta metaob) Method to create a Record class object
static Record	recordFactory(java.lang.String type, java.lang.Long obid, Meta metaob, java.lang.Number missingValue) Method to create a Record class object

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RecordFactory

public RecordFactory()

Method Detail

recordFactory

public static Record recordFactory(java.lang.String type,
                                   java.lang.Long obid,
                                   Meta metaob)

Method to create a Record class object

Parameters:

type - A string argument defining what type of Record class object to create

obid - An observation index defining which values to retrieve from the Stata dataset in memory

metaob - An object of class Meta used to define the observation/variable indices and metadata overall

Returns:

A Record class object of type defined by the user. An empty string will return the object used for JSON serialization

recordFactory

public static Record recordFactory(java.lang.String type,
                                   java.lang.Long obid,
                                   Meta metaob,
                                   java.lang.Number missingValue)

Method to create a Record class object

Parameters:

type - A string argument defining what type of Record class object to create

obid - An observation index defining which values to retrieve from the Stata dataset in memory

metaob - An object of class Meta used to define the observation/variable indices and metadata overall

missingValue - The numeric value to use to represent missing values in the data.

Returns:

A Record class object of type defined by the user. An empty string will return the object used for JSON serialization