story.scheherazade.misc
Class NounName

java.lang.Object
  story.scheherazade.misc.GenericScheherID
      story.scheherazade.misc.NounName

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable, RenderableObject, ScheherIDWithType

public class NounName
extends GenericScheherID
implements java.lang.Comparable, ScheherIDWithType

Extension of GenericScheherID that semantically represents the name of a Noun.

Constructor Summary

NounName(NounName name, NounType nounType)
Constructor used internally that provides some metadata about the named noun.

NounName(java.lang.String name, NounFlavor flavor)

Method Summary

int	compareTo(java.lang.Object other)
NounFlavor	getNounFlavor()
GenericScheherID	getType() Get the GenericScheherID's type (or supertype, if it's already a type).
WordNetOffset	getWordNetOffset() Get the GenericScheherID's WordNet synset offset
boolean	isAnonymous()
java.lang.StringBuffer	render() Render the ID in a StringBuffer.

Methods inherited from class story.scheherazade.misc.GenericScheherID

equals, getIDType, isEveryType, isGenericType, isGroupType, isUniversalType, toRawString, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface story.scheherazade.misc.ScheherIDWithType

isUniversalType

Constructor Detail

NounName

public NounName(java.lang.String name,
                NounFlavor flavor)
         throws Scheherexception

Throws:

Scheherexception

NounName

public NounName(NounName name,
                NounType nounType)
         throws Scheherexception

Constructor used internally that provides some metadata about the named noun.

Throws:

Scheherexception

Method Detail

getType

public GenericScheherID getType()

Description copied from interface: ScheherIDWithType

Get the GenericScheherID's type (or supertype, if it's already a type).

Specified by:

getType in interface ScheherIDWithType

render

public java.lang.StringBuffer render()
                              throws Scheherexception

Description copied from class: GenericScheherID

Render the ID in a StringBuffer. Automatically punctuates according to ID type.

Specified by:

render in interface RenderableObject

Specified by:

render in class GenericScheherID

Throws:

Scheherexception

compareTo

public int compareTo(java.lang.Object other)
              throws java.lang.ClassCastException

Specified by:

compareTo in interface java.lang.Comparable

Overrides:

compareTo in class GenericScheherID

Throws:

java.lang.ClassCastException

isAnonymous

public boolean isAnonymous()

getNounFlavor

public NounFlavor getNounFlavor()

getWordNetOffset

public WordNetOffset getWordNetOffset()

Description copied from interface: ScheherIDWithType

Get the GenericScheherID's WordNet synset offset

Specified by:

getWordNetOffset in interface ScheherIDWithType