Package de.julielab.jcore.ae.coordbaseline.tools

Class DataTypeHandling

java.lang.Object

de.julielab.jcore.ae.coordbaseline.tools.DataTypeHandling

public class DataTypeHandling
extends Object

This class provides methods which deal with data type conversion.

Author:

lichtenwald

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DataTypeHandling()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static ArrayList<String>	appendElements(ArrayList<String> list1, ArrayList<String> list2, String separator)	This method is used to append elements of one ArrayList of Strings to another.
static String	arrayListToString(ArrayList<String> inputList, String separator)	This method is used to convert an ArrayList of Strings to a String using the separator to separate the list elements within the String.
static ArrayList<String>	arrayToArrayList(String[] array)	This method is used to convert a string array to string array list.
static ArrayList	cloneList(ArrayList inputList)	This method is used to simply copy or clone two lists.
static boolean[]	initializeArray(boolean[] array, boolean value)	This method is used to initialize a given boolean array with a boolean value
static String[]	initializeArray(String[] array, String value)	This method is used to initialize a given String array with a given String value
static ArrayList	reverseList(ArrayList inputList)	This method is used to reverse the order of the elements within the input ArrayList.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DataTypeHandling

public DataTypeHandling()

Method Detail

reverseList

public static ArrayList reverseList(ArrayList inputList)

This method is used to reverse the order of the elements within the input ArrayList. The reversed elements will be stored in the output ArrayList.

Parameters:

inputList - the list which content will be reversed and then put into the output list

Returns:

outputList the list which will be returned after being filled with the reversed content of the input list

cloneList

public static ArrayList cloneList(ArrayList inputList)

This method is used to simply copy or clone two lists. In other words, the elements of the inputList will be copied to the outputList.

Parameters:

inputList - the list which content will be copied to the output list.

Returns:

outputList the list which will be returned after being filled with the content of the input list

arrayToArrayList

public static ArrayList<String> arrayToArrayList(String[] array)

This method is used to convert a string array to string array list.

Parameters:

array - String array which will be converted to a string array list

Returns:

list ArrayList which is the result of the conversion

arrayListToString

public static String arrayListToString(ArrayList<String> inputList,
                                       String separator)

This method is used to convert an ArrayList of Strings to a String using the separator to separate the list elements within the String.

Parameters:

inputList - ArrayList which elements will be put into the output string

separator - String which will separate the list elements within the string

Returns:

outputString String which will contain the list elements separated by the separator

appendElements

public static ArrayList<String> appendElements(ArrayList<String> list1,
                                               ArrayList<String> list2,
                                               String separator)

This method is used to append elements of one ArrayList of Strings to another. Every element of the list2 will be stuck to the corresponging element of the list1 using the separator between them. The output element will be (list1 element)(separator)(list2 element).

Parameters:

list1 - ArrayList to which elements the elements of the second list will be added

list2 - ArrayList which elements will be added to the elements of the first list

separator - String which will be put between the elements of the first and the second list to separate them

Returns:

outputList ArrayList which will contain the elements of both input lists according to the computation

initializeArray

public static boolean[] initializeArray(boolean[] array,
                                        boolean value)

This method is used to initialize a given boolean array with a boolean value

Parameters:

array - boolean array which will be initialized and then returned

value - boolean variable which the array will be initialized with

Returns:

array boolean array which was initialized with the boolean value

initializeArray

public static String[] initializeArray(String[] array,
                                       String value)

This method is used to initialize a given String array with a given String value

Parameters:

array - String array which will be initialized and then returned

value - String variable which the array will be initialized with

Returns:

array String array which was initialized with the String value