ModelExplicitCriterion.java

/*
 * ARX: Powerful Data Anonymization
 * Copyright 2012 - 2017 Fabian Prasser, Florian Kohlmayer and contributors
 * 
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package org.deidentifier.arx.gui.model;

/**
 * This class implements a base class for explicit privacy criteria,
 * i.e., ones that are associated to a specific attribute
 * @author Fabian Prasser
 */
public abstract class ModelExplicitCriterion extends ModelCriterion {

    /** SVUID. */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 2140859935908452477L;
	
	/** The attribute. */
	private final String attribute;

	/**
     * Creates a new instance.
     *
     * @param attribute
     */
	public ModelExplicitCriterion(String attribute) {
		super();
		this.attribute = attribute;
	}

	/**
     * Returns the associated attribute.
     *
     * @return
     */
	public String getAttribute() {
		return attribute;
	}
	
	/**
     * Implement this, to update data.
     *
     * @param criterion
     */
    public abstract void pull(ModelExplicitCriterion criterion);
}