source: branches/ralph/src/main/java/de/ugoe/cs/autoquest/tasktrees/alignment/pal/misc/Identifier.java @ 1573

// Identifier.java
//
// (c) 1999-2000 PAL Development Core Team
//
// This package may be distributed under the
// terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License (LGPL)

package de.ugoe.cs.autoquest.tasktrees.alignment.pal.misc;

import java.io.Serializable;
import de.ugoe.cs.autoquest.tasktrees.alignment.pal.util.Comparable;

/**
 * An identifier for some sampled data. This will most often be
 * for example, the accession number of a DNA sequence, or the
 * taxonomic name that the sequence represents, et cetera.
 *
 * @version $Id: Identifier.java,v 1.6 2001/12/02 22:32:18 matt Exp $
 *
 * @author Alexei Drummond
 */


public class Identifier implements
                                         Comparable, Nameable {

        private String name = null;

        
        public static Identifier ANONYMOUS = new Identifier("");

                public Identifier() {}

                public Identifier(String name) {
        setName(name);
                }

                public String toString() {
        return getName();
                }

                // implements Comparable interface

                public int compareTo(Object c) {

        return getName().compareTo(((Identifier)c).getName());
                }

                public boolean equals(Object c) {

        if (c instanceof Identifier) {
                        return getName().equals(((Identifier)c).getName());
        } else return false;
                }

                // implements Nameable interface

                public String getName() {
        return name;
                }

                public void setName(String s) {
        name = s;
                }
        /**
         * Translates an array of identifiers into an array of strings
         */
        public final static String[] getNames(Identifier[] ids) {
                String[] names = new String[ids.length];
                for(int i = 0 ; i < names.length ; i++) {
                        names[i] = ids[i].getName();
                }
                return names;
        }
        /**
         * Translates an array of identifiers into an array of strings, with optional removal of particular identifier
         * @param toIgnoreIndex the index of an idetifier to ignore, if <0 no element is ignored
         */
        public final static String[] getNames(Identifier[] ids, int toIgnore) {
                if(toIgnore<0||toIgnore>=ids.length) {
                        return getNames(ids);
                }
                String[] names = new String[ids.length-1];
                int index = 0;
                for(int i = 0 ; i < names.length ; i++) {
                        if(i!=toIgnore) {
                                names[index] = ids[i].getName();
                                index++;
                        }
                }
                return names;
        }

}