/**
* create a 1-d String array from a network, for easy transmission to R. triples (source,
* edgeType, target) are filled in to an array of length 3 * # of interactions
*
* @param network a gaggle network
* @return the edge attributes of the network as a string array
*/
protected String[] networkEdgeAttributesToStringArray(Network network) {
Interaction[] interactions = network.getInteractions();
String source, target, type;
String[] attributeNames = network.getEdgeAttributeNames();
ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
for (Interaction interaction : interactions) {
source = interaction.getSource();
type = interaction.getType();
target = interaction.getTarget();
String edgeName = source + " (" + type + ") " + target;
String terseEdgeName = source + "::" + target + "::" + type;
for (String name : attributeNames) {
HashMap hash = network.getEdgeAttributes(name);
if (hash.containsKey(edgeName)) {
Object value = hash.get(edgeName);
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append(terseEdgeName);
sb.append("::");
sb.append(name);
sb.append("::");
sb.append(value.toString());
list.add(sb.toString());
} else {
System.out.println("no " + name + " attribute for " + edgeName);
}
} // for a
} // for r
return list.toArray(new String[0]);
} // networkEdgeAttributesToStringArray
/**
* create a 1-d String array from a network, for easy transmission to R. each element in the array
* is a string, with format sourceNode::targetNode::edgeType
*
* @param network the network to convert to a string
* @return an array of strings representing a network
*/
protected String[] networkToStringArray(Network network) {
Interaction[] interactions = network.getInteractions();
ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
// System.out.println ("networkToStringArray, interaction ount: " + interactions.length);
for (Interaction interaction : interactions) {
String source = interaction.getSource();
String target = interaction.getTarget();
String type = interaction.getType();
String combined = source + "::" + target + "::" + type;
// System.out.println (" interaction: " + combined);
list.add(combined);
} // for i
String[] orphanNodes = network.getOrphanNodes();
// System.out.println ("networkToStringArray, orphanCount: " + orphanNodes.length);
for (String orphanNode : orphanNodes) {
// System.out.println (" orphan: " + orphanNodes [i]);
list.add(orphanNode);
}
return list.toArray(new String[0]);
} // networkToStringArray