Package net.didion.jwnl.data

Class Pointer

java.lang.Object

net.didion.jwnl.data.Pointer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class Pointer
extends Object
implements Serializable

A Pointer encodes a lexical or semantic relationship between WordNet entities. A lexical relationship holds between Words; a semantic relationship holds between Synsets. Relationships are directional: the two roles of a relationship are the source and target. Relationships are typed: the type of a relationship is a PointerType, and can be retrieved via getType.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Pointer(PointerTarget source, int index, PointerType pointerType, POS targetPOS, long targetOffset, int targetIndex)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	equals(Object object)
PointerTarget	getSource()	Get the source of this pointer.
int	getSourceIndex()
PointerTarget	getTarget()	Get the actual target of this pointer.
int	getTargetIndex()
long	getTargetOffset()	Get the offset of the target within the target synset.
POS	getTargetPOS()
Synset	getTargetSynset()	Get the synset that is a) the target of this pointer, or b) the * synset that contains the target of this pointer.
PointerType	getType()
int	hashCode()
boolean	isLexical()	True if this pointer's source is a Word
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Pointer

public Pointer(PointerTarget source,
               int index,
               PointerType pointerType,
               POS targetPOS,
               long targetOffset,
               int targetIndex)

Method Detail

equals

public boolean equals(Object object)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

getSourceIndex

public int getSourceIndex()

getType

public PointerType getType()

isLexical

public boolean isLexical()

True if this pointer's source is a Word

getSource

public PointerTarget getSource()

Get the source of this pointer.

getTarget

public PointerTarget getTarget()
                        throws JWNLException

Get the actual target of this pointer.

Throws:

JWNLException

getTargetSynset

public Synset getTargetSynset()
                       throws JWNLException

Get the synset that is a) the target of this pointer, or b) the * synset that contains the target of this pointer.

Throws:

JWNLException

getTargetOffset

public long getTargetOffset()

Get the offset of the target within the target synset. If the offset is * 0, then this pointer applies to all words in the target.

getTargetIndex

public int getTargetIndex()

getTargetPOS

public POS getTargetPOS()