[Repast-interest] Booleans in parameter files

[Lars-Bo J. <la...@fo...>]

Yesterday I asked this list for help concerning problems getting Repast to
accept Booleans in parameter file for batch run. 

I have figured out what was wrong, so if my problem was very obvious just
skip the rest of this mail. Otherwise I will I explain what was wrong since
I find it a bit odd, and maybe others will run into the same problem in the
future.

I have gotten the impression from the different how-too that all parameters
should have associated get and set methods (also Booleans) and this worked
fine until started to play around with parameters files and batch runs. 

To make a long story short, it turns out that to use parameter files for
batch running the model; repast expects the get (getParameter) method of
Booleans to be programmed as "is" method (isParameter). So refactoring my
code to take account of this fixed my problems.
But I still find it a bit odd since it only seems to be an issue with the
parameter files. But on the other hand it does make sense to name these
Booleans methods with "is" (I guess it is also a Java convention) but it
never occurred to me since only get and set method are mentioned in "How to
Build a Repast Model - 1 and 2".


Lars-Bo
 
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Lars-Bo Jacobsen
Research Fellow
Danish Research Institute of Food Economics
+45 35 28 68 57