edu.columbia.surge
Interface PersonalPronounFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:
PersonalPronounFactoryH
public abstract interface PersonalPronounFactory

This class holds the factory methods for the PersonalPronoun class. Users can use this class to create instances of PersonalPronoun objects with their desired parameters.

See Also:
PersonalPronoun

Field Summary
static PersonalPronounFactory factory
          The static instance which helps users to access to the methods in this class.
 
Method Summary
 PersonalPronoun create()
          A factory method which creates a default instance of PersonalPronoun.
 PersonalPronoun create(java.lang.String person)
          A factory method which computes and returns an instance of PersonalPronoun with the given specification of the whether the FD is in first, second or third person.
 PersonalPronoun create(java.lang.String person, boolean plurality, java.lang.String gender)
          A factory method which computes and returns an instance of PersonalPronoun.
 

Field Detail

factory

public static final PersonalPronounFactory factory
The static instance which helps users to access to the methods in this class.
Method Detail

create

public PersonalPronoun create()
A factory method which creates a default instance of PersonalPronoun.
Returns:
a default instance of PersonalPronoun

create

public PersonalPronoun create(java.lang.String person)
                       throws InvalidConstructorException
A factory method which computes and returns an instance of PersonalPronoun with the given specification of the whether the FD is in first, second or third person.
Parameters:
person - specify whether the personal-pronoun should be first, second or third person. Can use the static constants as parameters, example: PersonalPronoun.SECOND
Returns:
an instance of PersonalPronoun with the given parameters

create

public PersonalPronoun create(java.lang.String person,
                              boolean plurality,
                              java.lang.String gender)
                       throws InvalidConstructorException
A factory method which computes and returns an instance of PersonalPronoun.
Parameters:
person - specify whether the personal-pronoun should be first, second or third person. Can use the static constants as parameters, example: PersonalPronoun.SECOND
plurality - specify whether the personal-pronoun should be plural or singular.
gender - specify the gender of the personal-pronoun, can use the static constants in this class (example: PersonalPronoun.NEUTRAL) to feed in as parameters
Returns:
an instance of PersonalPronoun with the given parameters