moa.tasks

Interface Task

All Superinterfaces:

MOAObject, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractTask, CacheShuffledStream, ConceptDriftMainTask, EvaluateClustering, EvaluateConceptDrift, EvaluateInterleavedChunks, EvaluateInterleavedTestThenTrain, EvaluateModel, EvaluateModelRegression, EvaluateOnlineRecommender, EvaluatePeriodicHeldOutTest, EvaluatePrequential, EvaluatePrequentialRegression, LearnModel, LearnModelRegression, MainTask, MeasureStreamSpeed, Plot, RegressionMainTask, RunStreamTasks, RunTasks, WriteStreamToARFFFile

public interface Task
extends MOAObject

Interface representing a task.

Version:

$Revision: 7 $

Author:

Richard Kirkby (rkirkby@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	doTask() This method performs this task, when TaskMonitor and ObjectRepository are no needed.
Object	doTask(TaskMonitor monitor, ObjectRepository repository) This method performs this task.
Class<?>	getTaskResultType() Gets the result type of this task.

Methods inherited from interface moa.MOAObject

copy, getDescription, measureByteSize

Method Detail

getTaskResultType

Class<?> getTaskResultType()

Gets the result type of this task. Tasks can return LearningCurve, LearningEvaluation, Classifier, String, Instances..

Returns:

a class object of the result of this task

doTask

Object doTask()

This method performs this task, when TaskMonitor and ObjectRepository are no needed.

Returns:

an object with the result of this task

doTask

Object doTask(TaskMonitor monitor,
            ObjectRepository repository)

This method performs this task. AbstractTask implements this method so all its extensions only need to implement doTaskImpl

Parameters:

monitor - the TaskMonitor to use

repository - the ObjectRepository to use

Returns:

an object with the result of this task