PropertyValue.java

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package org.deegree.igeo.style.model;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.deegree.model.feature.schema.PropertyType;

/**
 * A <code>PropertyValue</code> gives a statistic view to a feature property. It does not contain all values but each
 * value one time and also its occurence.
 * 
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:buesching@lat-lon.de">Lyn Buesching</a>
 * @author last edited by: $Author$
 * 
 * @version $Revision$, $Date$
 * 
 */
public class PropertyValue<T extends Comparable<T>> {

    private final PropertyType propertyType;

    private List<T> values = new ArrayList<T>();

    /**
     * @param propertyType
     *            the type of the property
     */
    public PropertyValue( PropertyType propertyType ) {
        this.propertyType = propertyType;
    }

    /**
     * @param value
     *            not the value directly will be added, but its occurence in the map will be updated (if no entry for
     *            the value exist, it will be added with the inital occurence of 1, otherwise the counter will be
     *            increased)
     */
    public void putInMap( T value ) {
        values.add( value );
    }

    public List<T> getValues() {
        return values;
    }

    /**
     * @return the data type of the property type as code
     */
    public int getDatatyp() {
        return propertyType.getType();
    }

    /**
     * @return the propertyType
     */
    public PropertyType getPropertyType() {
        return propertyType;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return values.toString();
    }

}