DescriptorHandler (OpenChemLib 2021.2.0 API)

All Superinterfaces:

ISimilarityCalculator<T>

All Known Subinterfaces:

IDescriptorHandlerFlexophore

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDescriptorHandlerFP, AbstractDescriptorHandlerLongFP, DescriptorHandlerFFP512, DescriptorHandlerFlexophore, DescriptorHandlerFunctionalGroups, DescriptorHandlerHashedCFp, DescriptorHandlerIntVector, DescriptorHandlerLongCFP, DescriptorHandlerLongFFP512, DescriptorHandlerLongPFP512, DescriptorHandlerPFP512, DescriptorHandlerPTree, DescriptorHandlerReactionFP, DescriptorHandlerShape, DescriptorHandlerShapeOneConf, DescriptorHandlerSkeletonSpheres
```
public interface DescriptorHandler<T,U>
extends ISimilarityCalculator<T>
```
DescriptorHandler is the base Interface for any molecular descriptor handling StereoMolecules or Reactions

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type Field Description

static byte[] FAILED_BYTES

static java.lang.String FAILED_STRING

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`calculationFailed(T o)`
`T`	`createDescriptor(U chemObject)`
`T`	`decode(byte[] bytes)`
`T`	`decode(java.lang.String s)`
`java.lang.String`	`encode(T o)`
`DescriptorInfo`	`getInfo()`
`DescriptorHandler<T,U>`	`getThreadSafeCopy()`
`java.lang.String`	`getVersion()`

Methods inherited from interface com.actelion.research.chem.descriptor.ISimilarityCalculator
getSimilarity

Field Detail

FAILED_STRING

static final java.lang.String FAILED_STRING

See Also:: Constant Field Values

FAILED_BYTES
```
static final byte[] FAILED_BYTES
```

Method Detail

getInfo
```
DescriptorInfo getInfo()
```
Specified by:

getInfo in interface ISimilarityCalculator<T>

getVersion
```
java.lang.String getVersion()
```

encode
```
java.lang.String encode(T o)
```

decode
```
T decode(java.lang.String s)
```

decode
```
T decode(byte[] bytes)
```

createDescriptor
```
T createDescriptor(U chemObject)
```

calculationFailed
```
boolean calculationFailed(T o)
```

getThreadSafeCopy
```
DescriptorHandler<T,U> getThreadSafeCopy()
```
Specified by:

getThreadSafeCopy in interface ISimilarityCalculator<T>

Returns:

a deep copy for parallel computing.