source: src/main/java/weka/classifiers/RandomizableMultipleClassifiersCombiner.java @ 9

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/*
 *    RandomizableMultipleClassifiersCombiner.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2004 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.classifiers;

import weka.core.Option;
import weka.core.Randomizable;
import weka.core.Utils;

import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Vector;

/**
 * Abstract utility class for handling settings common to randomizable
 * meta classifiers that build an ensemble from multiple classifiers based
 * on a given random number seed.
 *
 * @author Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version $Revision: 6041 $
 */
public abstract class RandomizableMultipleClassifiersCombiner
  extends MultipleClassifiersCombiner implements Randomizable {

  /** for serialization */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 5057936555724785679L;

  /** The random number seed. */
  protected int m_Seed = 1;

  /**
   * Returns an enumeration describing the available options.
   *
   * @return an enumeration of all the available options.
   */
  public Enumeration listOptions() {

    Vector newVector = new Vector(2);

    newVector.addElement(new Option(
          "\tRandom number seed.\n"
          + "\t(default 1)",
          "S", 1, "-S <num>"));

    Enumeration enu = super.listOptions();
    while (enu.hasMoreElements()) {
      newVector.addElement(enu.nextElement());
    }
    return newVector.elements();
  }

  /**
   * Parses a given list of options. Valid options are:<p>
   *
   * -B classifierstring <br>
   * Classifierstring should contain the full class name of a scheme
   * included for selection followed by options to the classifier
   * (required, option should be used once for each classifier).<p>
   *
   * -S num <br>
   * Set the random number seed (default 1). <p>
   *
   * @param options the list of options as an array of strings
   * @exception Exception if an option is not supported
   */
  public void setOptions(String[] options) throws Exception {

    String seed = Utils.getOption('S', options);
    if (seed.length() != 0) {
      setSeed(Integer.parseInt(seed));
    } else {
      setSeed(1);
    }

    super.setOptions(options);
  }

  /**
   * Gets the current settings of the classifier.
   *
   * @return an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions
   */
  public String [] getOptions() {

    String [] superOptions = super.getOptions();
    String [] options = new String [superOptions.length + 2];

    int current = 0;
    options[current++] = "-S";
    options[current++] = "" + getSeed();

    System.arraycopy(superOptions, 0, options, current,
        superOptions.length);

    return options;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the tip text for this property
   * @return tip text for this property suitable for
   * displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui
   */
  public String seedTipText() {
    return "The random number seed to be used.";
  }

  /**
   * Set the seed for random number generation.
   *
   * @param seed the seed
   */
  public void setSeed(int seed) {

    m_Seed = seed;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the seed for the random number generations
   *
   * @return the seed for the random number generation
   */
  public int getSeed() {

    return m_Seed;
  }
}