Genotype

All Known Subinterfaces:

ListGenotype<E>

All Known Implementing Classes:

BooleanGenotype, BooleanMapGenotype, CompositeGenotype, DoubleGenotype, DoubleMapGenotype, IntegerGenotype, IntegerMapGenotype, PermutationGenotype, SelectGenotype, SelectMapGenotype
```
public interface Genotype
```
The Genotype represents a marker interface. A Genotype represents the genetic encoding of a solution of the optimization problem. Thus, a Genotype can be decoded to a Phenotype with an appropriate Decoder.

See Also:

org.opt4j.genotype

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`<G extends Genotype> G`	`newInstance()`	Constructs a new (empty) instance of this `Genotype`.
`int`	`size()`	The number of atomic elements of the `Genotype`.

- Method Detail
  - size
```
int size()
```
    The number of atomic elements of the Genotype.
    
    Returns:
    
    number of atomic elements of the genotype
  - newInstance
```
<G extends Genotype> G newInstance()
```
    Constructs a new (empty) instance of this Genotype.
    
    Type Parameters:
    
    G - the type of genotype for an implicit cast
    
    Returns:
    
    new instance of the genotype