An abstract class inheriting from AssociationType to represent the types of association that are used for OESIS 4V and to delegate processing to child classes.

getMetricsMap

map<shared_ptr<AbstractMetric>, int>

Returns a list of (AbstractMetric*, int) pair in the form of a map/dictionary structure. This is a wrapper method that each child class of this class wraps around the generateMetrics method of the corresponding child class of AbstractMetric class. Because each generateMetrics method returns a different subtype of AbstractMetric, this method converts them back to AbstractMetric type.

isOesisAssociationType

bool

A static method to check whether an AssociationType instance belongs to a child class of this class or not.