oracle.bali.share.beans
Class JavaPropertyEditorManager

java.lang.Object
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public class JavaPropertyEditorManager

extends java.lang.Object

Version of java.beans.PropertyEditorManager that caches the editor returned by findEditor. This includes caching cache misses. This greatly improves performance due to the the large number of places the PropertyEditormanager looks for editors for a class.

Due to the above performance enhancements, users should always use this class in place of PropertyEditorManager. Doing so is safe, since the JavaPropertyEditorManager always pushes calls to registerEditor through to the underlying PropertyEditorManager, while delegating to PropertyEditorManager when the desired class can not be found in the JavaPropertyEditorManager's editor cache.

Since:

Share 1.0

See Also:

PropertyEditorManager

Constructor Summary

JavaPropertyEditorManager()

Method Summary

static java.beans.PropertyEditor	findEditor(java.lang.Class targetType) Locate a value editor for a given target type.
static java.lang.String[]	getEditorSearchPath()
static void	registerEditor(java.lang.Class targetType, java.lang.Class editorClass) Register an editor class to be used to editor values of a given target class.
static void	setEditorSearchPath(java.lang.String[] path) Change the list of package names that will be used for finding property editors.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

JavaPropertyEditorManager

public JavaPropertyEditorManager()

Method Detail

registerEditor

public static void registerEditor(java.lang.Class targetType,
                                  java.lang.Class editorClass)

Register an editor class to be used to editor values of a given target class.

Parameters:

targetType - the Class object of the type to be edited

editorClass - the Class object of the editor class. If this is null, then any existing definition will be removed.

findEditor

public static java.beans.PropertyEditor findEditor(java.lang.Class targetType)

Locate a value editor for a given target type.

Parameters:

targetType - The Class object for the type to be edited

Returns:

An editor object for the given target class. The result is null if no suitable editor can be found.

getEditorSearchPath

public static java.lang.String[] getEditorSearchPath()

Returns:

The array of package names that will be searched in order to find property editors.

This is initially set to {"sun.beans.editors"}.

setEditorSearchPath

public static void setEditorSearchPath(java.lang.String[] path)

Change the list of package names that will be used for finding property editors.

Parameters:

path - Array of package names.