net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.operators.creation
Interface CreationStrategy

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable, Operator, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

RandCreationStrategy

public interface CreationStrategy
extends Operator

Creation operator definition. The manner in which new Entity instances are created is specified.

Method Summary

Entity	create(Entity targetEntity, Entity current, Topology<? extends Entity> topology) Create an Entity, based on the provided parameters.
CreationStrategy	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.

Methods inherited from interface net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.operators.Operator

performOperation

Method Detail

getClone

CreationStrategy getClone()

Description copied from interface: Operator

Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it. In general the created copy will be a deep copy of the provided instance. As a result this operation an be quite expensive if used incorrectly.

Specified by:

getClone in interface Cloneable

Specified by:

getClone in interface Operator

Returns:

An exact clone of the current object instance.

See Also:

Object.clone()

create

Entity create(Entity targetEntity,
              Entity current,
              Topology<? extends Entity> topology)

Create an Entity, based on the provided parameters. TODO: this may need to be simplified in some way.

Parameters:

targetEntity -

current -

topology -

Returns: