org.semanticweb.elk.reasoner.ReasonerJob Maven / Gradle / Ivy
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package org.semanticweb.elk.reasoner;
/**
* A general class for jobs submitted for computation. Every job is initialized
* with some input, and when the input is processed, this job can be used to
* obtain the result of the computation.
*
* @author "Yevgeny Kazakov"
*
* @param
* the type of the input of the job
* @param
* the type of the result of the computation
*/
public class ReasonerJob {
private final I input;
private O output = null;
/**
* Creating a job instance for the given input.
*
* @param input
* the input to be processed
*/
public ReasonerJob(I input) {
this.input = input;
}
/**
* Returns the input for this job.
*
* @return the input for this job
*/
public I getInput() {
return this.input;
}
/**
* Returns the output of this job, or {@code null} if the job has not been
* processed yet.
*
* @return the output of this job
*/
public O getOutput() {
return this.output;
}
/**
* Set the output of this job to the given value.
*
* @param output
* the output of this job
*/
protected void setOutput(O output) {
this.output = output;
}
}