org.openimaj.data.identity

Interface Identifiable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BingImageDataset, Caltech101.Record, CorelAnnotatedImage, IdentifiableObject, ImageSearchResult, UKBenchGroupDataset, UKBenchListDataset, VFSGroupDataset, VFSListDataset

public interface Identifiable

An Identifiable is an object that has an associated identifier. Two instances of Identifiable with the same identifier should be considered equal.

Author:

Jonathon Hare (jsh2@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	equals(Object o) Tests if this Identifiable is equal to a given Object instance.
String	getID()

Method Detail

getID

String getID()

Returns:

the identifier of this object

equals

boolean equals(Object o)

Tests if this Identifiable is equal to a given Object instance. Equality is defined by equality of the identifier.

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

o - the object to compare to

Returns:

true if equal; false otherwise