source: branches/MetisMQI/src/main/java/weka/filters/unsupervised/attribute/Obfuscate.java

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 */

/*
 *    Obfuscate.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2002 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */


package weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute;

import weka.core.Attribute;
import weka.core.Capabilities;
import weka.core.FastVector;
import weka.core.Instance; 
import weka.core.DenseInstance;
import weka.core.Instances;
import weka.core.RevisionUtils;
import weka.core.Capabilities.Capability;
import weka.filters.Filter;
import weka.filters.StreamableFilter;
import weka.filters.UnsupervisedFilter;

/** 
 <!-- globalinfo-start -->
 * A simple instance filter that renames the relation, all attribute names and all nominal (and string) attribute values. For exchanging sensitive datasets. Currently doesn't like string or relational attributes.
 * <p/>
 <!-- globalinfo-end -->
 * 
 * @author Len Trigg (len@reeltwo.com)
 * @version $Revision: 6174 $
 */
public class Obfuscate 
  extends Filter 
  implements UnsupervisedFilter, StreamableFilter {
  
  /** for serialization */
  static final long serialVersionUID = -343922772462971561L;

  /**
   * Returns a string describing this filter
   *
   * @return a description of the filter suitable for
   * displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui
   */
  public String globalInfo() {
    return 
        "A simple instance filter that renames the relation, all attribute names "
      + "and all nominal (and string) attribute values. For exchanging sensitive "
      + "datasets. Currently doesn't like string or relational attributes.";
  }

  /** 
   * Returns the Capabilities of this filter.
   *
   * @return            the capabilities of this object
   * @see               Capabilities
   */
  public Capabilities getCapabilities() {
    Capabilities result = super.getCapabilities();
    result.disableAll();

    // attributes
    result.enableAllAttributes();
    result.enable(Capability.MISSING_VALUES);
    
    // class
    result.enableAllClasses();
    result.enable(Capability.MISSING_CLASS_VALUES);
    result.enable(Capability.NO_CLASS);
    
    return result;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the format of the input instances.
   *
   * @param instanceInfo an Instances object containing the input instance
   * structure (any instances contained in the object are ignored - only the
   * structure is required).
   * @return true if the outputFormat may be collected immediately
   * @throws Exception if 
   */
  public boolean setInputFormat(Instances instanceInfo) throws Exception {

    super.setInputFormat(instanceInfo);
    
    // Make the obfuscated header
    FastVector v = new FastVector();
    for (int i = 0; i < instanceInfo.numAttributes(); i++) {
      Attribute oldAtt = instanceInfo.attribute(i);
      Attribute newAtt = null;
      switch (oldAtt.type()) {
        case Attribute.NUMERIC:
          newAtt = new Attribute("A" + (i + 1));
          break;
        case Attribute.DATE:
          String format = oldAtt.getDateFormat();
          newAtt = new Attribute("A" + (i + 1), format);
          break;
        case Attribute.NOMINAL:
          FastVector vals = new FastVector();
          for (int j = 0; j < oldAtt.numValues(); j++) {
            vals.addElement("V" + (j + 1));
          }
          newAtt = new Attribute("A" + (i + 1), vals);
          break;
        case Attribute.STRING:
        case Attribute.RELATIONAL:
        default:
          newAtt = (Attribute) oldAtt.copy();
          System.err.println("Not converting attribute: " + oldAtt.name());
          break;
      }
      v.addElement(newAtt);
    }
    Instances newHeader = new Instances("R", v, 10);
    newHeader.setClassIndex(instanceInfo.classIndex());
    setOutputFormat(newHeader);
    return true;
  }


  /**
   * Input an instance for filtering. Ordinarily the instance is processed
   * and made available for output immediately. Some filters require all
   * instances be read before producing output.
   *
   * @param instance the input instance
   * @return true if the filtered instance may now be
   * collected with output().
   * @throws IllegalStateException if no input format has been set.
   */
  public boolean input(Instance instance) {

    if (getInputFormat() == null) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("No input instance format defined");
    }
    if (m_NewBatch) {
      resetQueue();
      m_NewBatch = false;
    }
    push((Instance)instance.copy());
    return true;
  }
  
  /**
   * Returns the revision string.
   * 
   * @return            the revision
   */
  public String getRevision() {
    return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 6174 $");
  }

  /**
   * Main method for testing this class.
   *
   * @param argv should contain arguments to the filter: use -h for help
   */
  public static void main(String [] argv) {
    runFilter(new Obfuscate(), argv);
  }
}