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package org.apache.samoa.moa.classifiers.core.conditionaltests;

import org.apache.samoa.instances.Instance;
import org.apache.samoa.instances.InstancesHeader;

/**
 * Nominal multi way conditional test for instances to use to split nodes in Hoeffding trees.
 * 
 * @author Richard Kirkby (rkirkby@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version $Revision: 7 $
 */
public class NominalAttributeMultiwayTest extends InstanceConditionalTest {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  protected int attIndex;

  public NominalAttributeMultiwayTest(int attIndex) {
    this.attIndex = attIndex;
  }

  @Override
  public int branchForInstance(Instance inst) {
    int instAttIndex = this.attIndex; // < inst.classIndex() ? this.attIndex
    // : this.attIndex + 1;
    return inst.isMissing(instAttIndex) ? -1 : (int) inst.value(instAttIndex);
  }

  @Override
  public String describeConditionForBranch(int branch, InstancesHeader context) {
    return InstancesHeader.getAttributeNameString(context, this.attIndex)
        + " = "
        + InstancesHeader.getNominalValueString(context, this.attIndex,
            branch);
  }

  @Override
  public int maxBranches() {
    return -1;
  }

  @Override
  public void getDescription(StringBuilder sb, int indent) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  }

  @Override
  public int[] getAttsTestDependsOn() {
    return new int[] { this.attIndex };
  }
}