Package net.ontopia.topicmaps.utils

Class DuplicateSuppressionUtils

java.lang.Object

net.ontopia.topicmaps.utils.DuplicateSuppressionUtils

public class DuplicateSuppressionUtils
extends Object

PUBLIC: A helper class that can remove duplicate objects from a topic map.

Since:

1.2

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DuplicateSuppressionUtils()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static void	removeDuplicateAssociations(Collection<AssociationIF> assocs)	INTERNAL: do not call this method.
static Map<AssociationIF,Set<AssociationIF>>	removeDuplicateAssociations(TopicIF topic)	PUBLIC: Removes all duplicate associations of this topic.
static void	removeDuplicateOccurrences(Collection<OccurrenceIF> occurs)	INTERNAL: do not call this method.
static void	removeDuplicates(AssociationIF assoc)	PUBLIC: Remove all duplicate association roles of the association.
static void	removeDuplicates(TopicIF topic)	PUBLIC: Remove all duplicated characteristics of the given topic, except for duplicate associations the topic may participate in.
static void	removeDuplicates(TopicMapIF topicmap)	PUBLIC: Remove all duplicates in the entire topic map.
static void	removeDuplicates(TopicNameIF basename)	PUBLIC: Remove all duplicate variant names of the given topic name.
static void	removeDuplicateTopicNames(Collection<TopicNameIF> basenames)	INTERNAL: do not call this method.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DuplicateSuppressionUtils

public DuplicateSuppressionUtils()

Method Detail

removeDuplicates

public static void removeDuplicates(TopicMapIF topicmap)

PUBLIC: Remove all duplicates in the entire topic map.

removeDuplicates

public static void removeDuplicates(TopicIF topic)

PUBLIC: Remove all duplicated characteristics of the given topic, except for duplicate associations the topic may participate in.

removeDuplicateTopicNames

public static void removeDuplicateTopicNames(Collection<TopicNameIF> basenames)

INTERNAL: do not call this method.

removeDuplicateOccurrences

public static void removeDuplicateOccurrences(Collection<OccurrenceIF> occurs)

INTERNAL: do not call this method.

removeDuplicateAssociations

public static void removeDuplicateAssociations(Collection<AssociationIF> assocs)

INTERNAL: do not call this method.

removeDuplicates

public static void removeDuplicates(TopicNameIF basename)

PUBLIC: Remove all duplicate variant names of the given topic name.

removeDuplicates

public static void removeDuplicates(AssociationIF assoc)

PUBLIC: Remove all duplicate association roles of the association.

removeDuplicateAssociations

public static Map<AssociationIF,Set<AssociationIF>> removeDuplicateAssociations(TopicIF topic)

PUBLIC: Removes all duplicate associations of this topic.

Since:

2.1