DiscreteMappingGenerator (Cytoscape Swing App API (swing-app-api) 3.8.1 API)

Type Parameters:

V - the type of the Visual Property.
```
public interface DiscreteMappingGenerator<V>
```
Generates Discrete mapping for a set of attribute values and a Visual Property.
Module: vizmap-gui-api
To use this in your app, include the following dependency in your POM:
```
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.cytoscape</groupId>
    <artifactId>vizmap-gui-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
```
Cytoscape Backwards Compatibility (SPI Interface): We expect that this interface will be implemented. Therefore to maintain backwards compatibility this interface will only be modified for major version updates.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`<T> Map<T,V>`	`generateMap(Set<T> attributeSet)`	For a given set of attribute values, create discrete mapping.
`Class<V>`	`getDataType()`	Returns the type of the visual property.

- Method Detail
  - generateMap
```
<T> Map<T,V> generateMap(Set<T> attributeSet)
```
    For a given set of attribute values, create discrete mapping.
    
    Type Parameters:
    
    T - the type of the attribute values.
    
    Parameters:
    
    attributeSet - the set of attribute values.
    
    Returns:
    
    a map between an attribute type and a visual property type.
  - getDataType
```
Class<V> getDataType()
```
    Returns the type of the visual property.
    
    Returns:
    
    the type of the visual property.