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/*
 * LibrarySerialization.java
 * Copyright (C) 2006 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 */

package weka.gui.ensembleLibraryEditor;

import weka.core.xml.XMLBasicSerialization;

/**
 * For serializing LibraryModels.  This class uses the existing weka 
 * infrastructure to let us easily serialize classifier specifications
 * in a nice solid and stable XML format.  This class is responsible for 
 * creating the .model.xml files.  Note that this truly was a life saver
 * when we found out that saving the string representations , e.g. 
 * "weka.classifiers.meta.foobar -X 1 -Y 2"  in a flat file simply did 
 * not work for lots of different kinds of classifiers.
 * 
 * @author  fracpete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)
 * @version $Revision: 5928 $
 */
public class LibrarySerialization 
  extends XMLBasicSerialization {
  
  /**
   * initializes the serialization
   * 
   * @throws Exception if initialization fails
   */
  public LibrarySerialization() throws Exception {
    super();
  }
  
  /**
   * generates internally a new XML document and clears also the IgnoreList and
   * the mappings for the Read/Write-Methods
   * 
   * @throws Exception	if something goes wrong
   */
  public void clear() throws Exception {
    super.clear();
    
    // allow
    m_Properties.addAllowed(weka.classifiers.Classifier.class, "options");
  }
}