Package de.uni_marburg.mdo_over.graphtools

Class DotSerializer

java.lang.Object

de.uni_marburg.mdo_over.graphtools.DotSerializer

public class DotSerializer
extends Object

Allows to generate a representation of a ModelGraph in the DOT language.

Author:

S. John

See Also:

DOT language

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DotSerializer(String basepath)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	saveAsDot(ModelGraph graph, String filename)	Save the graph in a DOT file and afterwards clear the IDs used for labeling the graph elements in the DOT format.
void	saveAsDot(ModelGraph graph, String filename, boolean resetIds)	/** Save the graph in a DOT file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DotSerializer

public DotSerializer(String basepath)

Method Detail

saveAsDot

public void saveAsDot(ModelGraph graph,
                      String filename,
                      boolean resetIds)
               throws IOException

/** Save the graph in a DOT file. Setting resetIds to false the IDs used for labeling the graph elements in the DOT format are kept for the next call to saveAsDot(ModelGraph, String, boolean). In that case, the DOT representations of the given and the next saved graph will share the same labels for graph elements referencing the same objects. Otherwise the IDs are cleared and the labels of next graph are calculated independently.

Parameters:

graph - a graph to save as DOT file

filename - name of the file

resetIds - whether to reset the IDs used for labeling graph elements or not

Throws:

IOException - thrown if the file or any directories specified in filename could not be accessed

saveAsDot

public void saveAsDot(ModelGraph graph,
                      String filename)
               throws IOException

Save the graph in a DOT file and afterwards clear the IDs used for labeling the graph elements in the DOT format. The next call to saveAsDot(ModelGraph, String, boolean) will calculate new IDs regardless of whether or not the referenced objects of the next graph overlap with the objects of the given graph.

Equivalent to a call to saveAsDot(ModelGraph, String, true).

Parameters:

graph - a graph to save as DOT file

filename - name of the file

Throws:

IOException - thrown if the file or any directories specified in filename could not be accessed