edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.preprocessing
Class Deobfuscator

java.lang.Object
  edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.Operator
      edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.preprocessing.Deobfuscator

All Implemented Interfaces:

ConfigurationListener

public class Deobfuscator
extends Operator

This operator takes an ExampleSet as input and maps all nominal values to randomly created strings. The names and the construction descriptions of all attributes will also replaced by random strings. This operator can be used to anonymize your data. It is possible to save the obfuscating map into a file which can be used to remap the old values and names. Please use the operator Deobfuscator for this purpose. The new example set can be written with an ExampleSetWriter.

Version:

$Id: Deobfuscator.java,v 1.16 2006/10/01 12:09:24 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Ingo Mierswa

Constructor Summary

Deobfuscator(OperatorDescription description)

Method Summary

IOObject[]	apply() Implement this method in subclasses.
private void	deObfuscateAttribute(Attribute attribute, java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> obfuscatorMap)
java.lang.Class[]	getInputClasses() Returns the classes that are needed as input.
java.lang.Class[]	getOutputClasses() Returns the classes that are guaranteed to be returned by apply() as additional output.
java.util.List<ParameterType>	getParameterTypes() Returns a list of ParameterTypes describing the parameters of this operator.
private java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	readObfuscatorMap(java.io.File file)

Methods inherited from class edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.Operator

addError, addValue, addWarning, apply, checkDeprecations, checkIO, checkProperties, clearErrorList, cloneOperator, createExperimentTree, createExperimentTree, createFromXML, createMarkedExperimentTree, delete, experimentFinished, experimentStarts, getAddOnlyAdditionalOutput, getApplyCount, getDeliveredOutputClasses, getDeprecationInfo, getDesiredInputClasses, getErrorList, getExperiment, getInnerOperatorsXML, getInput, getInput, getInput, getInputDescription, getIOContainerForInApplyLoopBreakpoint, getName, getNumberOfSteps, getOperatorClassName, getOperatorDescription, getParameter, getParameterAsBoolean, getParameterAsColor, getParameterAsDouble, getParameterAsFile, getParameterAsInt, getParameterAsString, getParameterList, getParameters, getParameterType, getParent, getStartTime, getStatus, getUserDescription, getValue, getValues, getXML, hasBreakpoint, hasBreakpoint, hasInput, inApplyLoop, isEnabled, isParameterSet, logMessage, performAdditionalChecks, register, remove, rename, resume, setBreakpoint, setEnabled, setExperiment, setInput, setListParameter, setOperatorParameters, setParameter, setParameters, setParent, setUserDescription, toString, writeXML

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Deobfuscator

public Deobfuscator(OperatorDescription description)

Method Detail

apply

public IOObject[] apply()
                 throws OperatorException

Description copied from class: Operator

Implement this method in subclasses.

Specified by:

apply in class Operator

Throws:

OperatorException

deObfuscateAttribute

private void deObfuscateAttribute(Attribute attribute,
                                  java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> obfuscatorMap)

readObfuscatorMap

private java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> readObfuscatorMap(java.io.File file)
                                                                    throws java.io.IOException

Throws:

java.io.IOException

getInputClasses

public java.lang.Class[] getInputClasses()

Description copied from class: Operator

Returns the classes that are needed as input. May be null or an empty (no desired input). As default, all delivered input objects are consumed and must be also delivered as output in both Operator.getOutputClasses() and Operator.apply() if this is necessary. This default behavior can be changed by overriding Operator.getInputDescription(Class). Subclasses which implement this method should not make use of parameters since this method is invoked by getParameterTypes(). Therefore, parameters are not fully available at this point of time and this might lead to exceptions. Please use InputDescriptions instead.

Specified by:

getInputClasses in class Operator

getOutputClasses

public java.lang.Class[] getOutputClasses()

Description copied from class: Operator

Returns the classes that are guaranteed to be returned by apply() as additional output. Please note that input object which should not be consumed must also be defined by this method (e.g. for preprocessing operators). The default behavior for input consumation is defined by Operator.getInputDescription(Class) and can be changed by overwriting this method. Objects which are not consumed must not be defined as additional output in this method. May be null or an empy array (no additional output is produced).

Specified by:

getOutputClasses in class Operator

getParameterTypes

public java.util.List<ParameterType> getParameterTypes()

Description copied from class: Operator

Returns a list of ParameterTypes describing the parameters of this operator. The default implementation returns an empty list if no input objects can be retained and special parameters for those input objects which can be prevented from being consumed.

Overrides:

getParameterTypes in class Operator