From 9a66281d109bbef8e1c99759d817bfb58843842c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:14:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] test for property type and property type constants

git-svn-id: https://svn.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/svn/repository/trunk@475 be28352e-c001-0410-b1a7-c7978e42abec
---
 src/uk/ac/vamsas/objects/utils/Properties.java |   21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/uk/ac/vamsas/objects/utils/Properties.java b/src/uk/ac/vamsas/objects/utils/Properties.java
index 491a781..c7d9e30 100644
--- a/src/uk/ac/vamsas/objects/utils/Properties.java
+++ b/src/uk/ac/vamsas/objects/utils/Properties.java
@@ -13,9 +13,28 @@ public class Properties {
     }
     else
     {
-      vProperty.setType("String");
+      vProperty.setType(STRINGTYPE);
     }
     vProperty.setContent(content);
     return vProperty;
   }
+  public static String STRINGTYPE="string";
+  public static String FLOATTYPE="float";
+  public static String INTEGERTYPE="integer";
+  
+  public boolean isString(Property p)
+  {
+    return isType(p, STRINGTYPE);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @param p the property to test for type
+   * @param typeString one of the string constants in this class
+   * @return true if p is of type 'typeString'
+   */
+  public boolean isType(Property p, String typeString) {
+    return (p==null) ? false : (p.getType().toLowerCase().equals(typeString));
+  }
+  
 }
-- 
1.7.10.2