Package org.anchoranalysis.io.input.bean

Class InputManager<T extends InputFromManager>

Object

AnchorBean<InputManager<T>>

InputManager<T>

Type Parameters:

T - input-type

Direct Known Subclasses:

AnnotationInputManager, Concatenate, ConvertNamedChannelsToStack, InputManagerUnary, InputManagerWithStackReader, NamedFilesBase

public abstract class InputManager<T extends InputFromManager>
extends AnchorBean<InputManager<T>>

Base class for describing the inputs.

By inputs, this refers to files that form the necessary input to an experiment.

This is an import class in specifying an experiment in the Anchor platform, of which many different implementations specify different types and combinations of inputs.

Author:

Owen Feehan

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
InputManager()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract InputsWithDirectory<T>	inputs(InputManagerParameters parameters)	Creates a list of inputs given particular parameters.

Methods inherited from class org.anchoranalysis.bean.AnchorBean

checkMisconfigured, describeBean, describeChildren, duplicateBean, fields, findFieldsOfClass, getBeanName, getLocalPath, localise, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

InputManager

public InputManager()

Method Details

inputs

public abstract InputsWithDirectory<T> inputs(InputManagerParameters parameters)
                                       throws InputReadFailedException

Creates a list of inputs given particular parameters.

Parameters:

parameters - the parameters.

Returns:

the list of inputs, together with any associated parent directory.

Throws:

InputReadFailedException - if inputs cannot be successfully read from the file-system.