uchicago.src.sim.analysis
Class DataSourceUtilities

java.lang.Object
  uchicago.src.sim.analysis.DataSourceUtilities

public class DataSourceUtilities
extends java.lang.Object

Utility methods for return data. Used by those classes that realize the DataSource interface.

Version:

$Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2004/11/03 19:51:00 $

Author:

Nick Collier

Constructor Summary

DataSourceUtilities()

Method Summary

static java.lang.Object	getAverage(java.util.ArrayList list, java.lang.reflect.Method m) Calls the specified method on every object in the specified list.
static java.lang.Object	getObject(java.lang.Object o, java.lang.reflect.Method m) Calls the specified method on the specified object, returning the result as an Object

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DataSourceUtilities

public DataSourceUtilities()

Method Detail

getObject

public static java.lang.Object getObject(java.lang.Object o,
                                         java.lang.reflect.Method m)

Calls the specified method on the specified object, returning the result as an Object

getAverage

public static java.lang.Object getAverage(java.util.ArrayList list,
                                          java.lang.reflect.Method m)

Calls the specified method on every object in the specified list. The resulting values are averaged and this average is returned as a Double. Average is computed as the (sum of the all the elements in the list) / (the size of the list).

Returns:

the average as a Double (to be cast by caller).