attributecounter.java

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/*
 *  YALE - Yet Another Learning Environment
 *  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003
 *      Simon Fischer, Ralf Klinkenberg, Ingo Mierswa, 
 *          Katharina Morik, Oliver Ritthoff
 *      Artificial Intelligence Unit
 *      Computer Science Department
 *      University of Dortmund
 *      44221 Dortmund,  Germany
 *  email: [e-mail]
 *  web:   http://yale.cs.uni-dortmund.de/
 *
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 */
package edu.udo.cs.yale.example;

import java.util.Comparator;

/** Objects of this class count how often an attribute was used by a certain algorithm.
 *
 *  @author ingo
 *  @version $Id: AttributeCounter.java,v 2.1 2003/04/04 11:59:24 fischer Exp $
 */
public class AttributeCounter implements Comparable {

    /** Counts, how often the attribute was used.
     */
    private int usecount;

    /** An attribute in the ExampleTable
     */
    private Attribute attribute;


    /** Constructs a new AttribtueCounter for teh given attribute.
     */
    public AttributeCounter(Attribute attribute) {
	this.attribute = attribute;
	this.usecount  = 1;
    }

    public Attribute getAttribute() {
	return attribute;
    }

    public int getUseCount() {
	return usecount;
    }

    public void incrementCounter() {
	usecount++;
    }

    public int compareTo(Object o) {
	return new Integer(((AttributeCounter)o).usecount).compareTo(new Integer(usecount));
    }

    public boolean equals(AttributeCounter ac) {
	return (this.attribute.getConstructionDescription().equals(ac.attribute.getConstructionDescription()));
    }
}