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Interface FeatureMap
- All Superinterfaces:
- Map
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- SimpleFeatureMapImpl
- public interface FeatureMap
- extends Map
An attribute-value matrix. Represents the content of an annotation, the
meta-data on a resource, and anything else we feel like.
Method Summary |
boolean |
subsumes(FeatureMap aFeatureMap)
Test if this featureMap object is included in aFeatureMap |
Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map |
clear, containsKey, containsValue, entrySet, equals, get, hashCode, isEmpty, keySet, put, putAll, remove, size, values |
subsumes
public boolean subsumes(FeatureMap aFeatureMap)
- Test if this featureMap object is included in aFeatureMap
- Parameters:
aFeatureMap
- object which will incude or not this FeatureMap obj.- Returns:
true
if this is incuded in aFeatureMap
and false
if not.