org.bolson.vote
Class DistributiveVSWrapper

java.lang.Object
  org.bolson.vote.VotingSystem
      org.bolson.vote.DistributiveVSWrapper

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class DistributiveVSWrapper
extends VotingSystem

Utility class for running several VotingSystem instances at once.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

int	primary which one of they gets returned for getWinners, toString, htmlSummary.
java.util.Vector	they add VotingSystem-s to this and they will get all votes.

Fields inherited from class org.bolson.vote.VotingSystem

debug, NO_VOTE, numc

Constructor Summary

DistributiveVSWrapper(int numcIn)

Method Summary

int[]	getWinners() Do processing if necessary, return winners.
java.lang.String	htmlSummary(java.lang.String[] names) A fancy html representation.
java.lang.String	toString(java.lang.String[] names) A more interesting representation.
int	voteRanking(int[] ranking)
int	voteRating(double[] rating)
int	voteRating(float[] rating)
int	voteRating(int[] rating)

Methods inherited from class org.bolson.vote.VotingSystem

checkRatedVote, getDebugHTML, getDebugText, getNumberOfCandidates, getWinners, getWinners, getWinners, init, isValidRankedVote, isValidRatedVote, name, normalize, normalize, normalize, normalize, normalize, normalizeL2, normalizeL2, normalizeL2, normalizeL2, normalizeL2, stretch, voteRating

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

they

public java.util.Vector they

add VotingSystem-s to this and they will get all votes.

primary

public int primary

which one of they gets returned for getWinners, toString, htmlSummary. default to zero. it would probably be better if you kept track of the VotingSystem-s going into this and got results from them separately.

Constructor Detail

DistributiveVSWrapper

public DistributiveVSWrapper(int numcIn)

Method Detail

voteRating

public int voteRating(int[] rating)

Specified by:

voteRating in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

rating - An array int[numc]. rating[i] is the rating of choice i. A rating can be any int value. Higher means more preferred. NO_VOTE for unrated.

Returns:

0 on success

voteRating

public int voteRating(float[] rating)

Specified by:

voteRating in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

rating - An array int[N]. rating[i] is the rating of choice i. A rating can be any int value. Higher means more preferred. NO_VOTE for unrated.

Returns:

0 on success

voteRating

public int voteRating(double[] rating)

Specified by:

voteRating in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

rating - An array int[N]. rating[i] is the rating of choice i. A rating can be any int value. Higher means more preferred. NO_VOTE for unrated.

Returns:

0 on success

voteRanking

public int voteRanking(int[] ranking)

Specified by:

voteRanking in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

ranking - An array int[N]. ranking[i] is the ranking of choice i. rankings are 1 (most preferred) through N (least). INT_MAX, N, or NO_VOTE for unspecified.

Returns:

0 on success

getWinners

public int[] getWinners()

Description copied from class: VotingSystem

Do processing if necessary, return winners.

It is recommended to cache the return value in such a way that calling this function again does not do complex recalculation. That cache should be cleared if voteRating or voteRanking is called.

Specified by:

getWinners in class VotingSystem

Returns:

indecies of winners (hopefully 1 of them)

toString

public java.lang.String toString(java.lang.String[] names)

Description copied from class: VotingSystem

A more interesting representation. Include the names of the choices voted upon in the representation.

Specified by:

toString in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

names - The names of the choices.

Returns:

state, with names!

htmlSummary

public java.lang.String htmlSummary(java.lang.String[] names)

Description copied from class: VotingSystem

A fancy html representation. Include the names of the choices voted upon in the representation.

Specified by:

htmlSummary in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

names - The names of the choices. May be null.

Returns:

state, with names!