Package org.ivoa.dm.registry.voresource

Class Date.DateBuilder

java.lang.Object

org.ivoa.dm.registry.voresource.Date.DateBuilder

Enclosing class:

Date

public static class Date.DateBuilder
extends Object

A builder class for Date, mainly for use in the functional builder pattern.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
String	role	A string indicating what the date refers to.
UTCDateTime	value	.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DateBuilder()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Date	create()	create a Date from this builder.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Details

value

public UTCDateTime value

.

role

public String role

A string indicating what the date refers to. The value of role should be taken from the vocabulary maintained at http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/voresource/date_role. This includes the traditional and deprecated strings “creation”, indicating the date that the resource itself was created, and “update”, indicating when the resource was updated last, and the default value, “representative”, meaning the date is a rough representation of the time coverage of the resource. The preferred terms from that vocabulary are the DataCite Metadata terms. It is expected that the vocabulary will be kept synchronous with the corresponding list of terms in the DataCite Metadata schema. Note that this date refers to the resource; dates describing the metadata description of the resource are handled by the “created” and “updated” attributes of the Resource element.

Constructor Details

DateBuilder

public DateBuilder()

Method Details

create

public Date create()

create a Date from this builder.

Returns:

an object initialized from the builder.