/// <summary>
/// Writes the given cluster diversity unit to a flat file.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="experimentId">The experiment that was executed.</param>
/// <param name="run">The run number of the given experiment.</param>
/// <param name="batch">The batch number of the given run.</param>
/// <param name="clusterDiversityUnit">The clustering and population entropy data to persist.</param>
private static void WriteClusteringDiversityDataToFile(int experimentId, int run, int batch,
ClusterDiversityUnit clusterDiversityUnit)
{
// Make sure the file writer actually exists before attempting to write to it
if (FileWriters.ContainsKey(OutputFileType.NaturalClusterData) == false)
{
throw new Exception(
string.Format("Cannot write to output stream as no file writer of type {0} has been created.",
OutputFileType.NaturalClusterData));
}
FileWriters[OutputFileType.NaturalClusterData].WriteLine(string.Join(FileDelimiter,
new List<string>
{
experimentId.ToString(),
run.ToString(),
batch.ToString(),
clusterDiversityUnit.NumClusters.ToString(),
clusterDiversityUnit.PopulationEntropy.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
}));
}
/// <summary>
/// Writes the cluster diversity results to the experiment database or to a flat file.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="experimentId">The experiment that was executed.</param>
/// <param name="run">The run number of the given experiment.</param>
/// <param name="batch">The batch number of the given run.</param>
/// <param name="clusterDiversityUnit">The cluster diversity results.</param>
/// <param name="writeToDatabase">
/// Indicates whether evaluation results should be written directly to the database or to a
/// flat file.
/// </param>
public static void WriteClusteringDiversityData(int experimentId, int run, int batch,
ClusterDiversityUnit clusterDiversityUnit, bool writeToDatabase)
{
// Write results to the database if the option has been specified
if (writeToDatabase)
{
throw new NotImplementedException(
"Direct write to database for clustering diversity not yet implemented!");
}
// Otherwise, write to the flat file output
WriteClusteringDiversityDataToFile(experimentId, run, batch, clusterDiversityUnit);
}
