/*
 * This file is part of ELKI:
 * Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2017
 * ELKI Development Team
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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 *
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 *
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 */
package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.result;

import java.util.List;

import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.algorithm.itemsetmining.associationrules.AssociationRule;
import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data.BitVector;
import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data.type.VectorFieldTypeInformation;
import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.result.textwriter.TextWriteable;
import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.result.textwriter.TextWriterStream;

/**
 * Result class for association rule mining
 * 
 * @author Frederic Sautter
 */
public class AssociationRuleResult extends BasicResult implements TextWriteable {
  /**
   * Association rules together with the interestingness measure.
   */
  private List<AssociationRule> rules;

  /**
   * Metadata of the data relation, for item labels.
   */
  private VectorFieldTypeInformation<BitVector> meta;

  /**
   * Constructor.
   *
   * @param name
   * @param shortname
   */
  public AssociationRuleResult(String name, String shortname, List<AssociationRule> rules, VectorFieldTypeInformation<BitVector> meta) {
    super(name, shortname);
    this.rules = rules;
    this.meta = meta;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the rules.
   * 
   * @return the rules.
   */
  public List<AssociationRule> getRules() {
    return rules;
  }

  /**
   * Returns Metadata of the data relation, for item labels.
   * 
   * @return meta
   */
  public VectorFieldTypeInformation<BitVector> getMeta() {
    return this.meta;
  }

  @Override
  public void writeToText(TextWriterStream out, String label) {
    StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
    for(AssociationRule rule : rules) {
      buf.setLength(0); // Reuse
      out.inlinePrintNoQuotes(rule.appendTo(buf, meta));
      out.flush();
    }
  }
}