de.vandermeer.skb.interfaces.transformers.arrays2d

Interface Array2D_To_NormalizedArray

All Superinterfaces:

CategoryIs, Function<String[][],String[][]>, IsTransformer<String[][],String[][]>, Transformer<String[][],String[][]>

public interface Array2D_To_NormalizedArray
extends IsTransformer<String[][],String[][]>

Transforms a 2-dimensional array into a normalized 2-dimensional array. Normalized means that all rows in the returned array have the same number of columns. Additionally, all columns will have the same length, space being added to pad.

Since:

v0.0.1

Version:

v0.0.2 build 170502 (02-May-17) for Java 1.8

Author:

Sven van der Meer <vdmeer.sven@mykolab.com>

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Array2D_To_NormalizedArray	create(int columns) Creates a new transformer.
int	getNumberOfColumns() Returns the number of columns,
default String[][]	transform(String[][] ar) Transforms from one representation to another.

Methods inherited from interface Transformer

apply, transform

Methods inherited from interface Function

andThen, compose, identity

Method Detail

getNumberOfColumns

int getNumberOfColumns()

Returns the number of columns,

Returns:

number of columns

Throws:

NullPointerException - if argument was null

transform

default String[][] transform(String[][] ar)

Description copied from interface: Transformer

Transforms from one representation to another.

Specified by:

transform in interface Transformer<String[][],String[][]>

Parameters:

ar - input representation

Returns:

output representation or null if input was null or unexpected class

create

static Array2D_To_NormalizedArray create(int columns)

Creates a new transformer.

Parameters:

columns - number of columns

Returns:

new transformer