oracle.cabo.share.xml.beans
Class BeanDef

java.lang.Object
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Direct Known Subclasses:

IntrospectionBeanDef

public abstract class BeanDef

extends java.lang.Object

Class for defining a bean to the parser engine.

Constructor Summary

BeanDef()
Creates a BeanDef.

Method Summary

abstract java.lang.Object	createBean(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName) Creates a bean, specifying the namespace URI and localName
abstract java.lang.Object	finishBean(java.lang.Object bean) "Finishes" a bean by transforming it into the final target object.
abstract PropertyDef	getDefaultPropertyDef() Gets the "default" property definition.
abstract PropertyDef	getElementPropertyDef(java.lang.String namespace, java.lang.String name, org.xml.sax.Attributes attrs) Gets an property definition for a child element.
abstract PropertyDef	getPropertyDef(java.lang.String name) Gets an property definition.
abstract PropertyDef	getPropertyDef(java.lang.String namespace, java.lang.String name) Gets an property definition for a namespaced property.
abstract boolean	isInlineChildProperty(java.lang.String namespace, java.lang.String name, PropertyDef def) Returns true if the PropertyDef is defined with an inline child element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BeanDef

public BeanDef()

Creates a BeanDef.

Method Detail

getPropertyDef

public abstract PropertyDef getPropertyDef(java.lang.String name)

Gets an property definition.

Parameters:

name - the property name

Returns:

the property definition, or null if no such property exists

getPropertyDef

public abstract PropertyDef getPropertyDef(java.lang.String namespace,
                                           java.lang.String name)

Gets an property definition for a namespaced property.

Parameters:

namespace - the namespace

name - the property name

Returns:

the property definition, or null if no such property exists

getElementPropertyDef

public abstract PropertyDef getElementPropertyDef(java.lang.String namespace,
                                                  java.lang.String name,
                                                  org.xml.sax.Attributes attrs)

Gets an property definition for a child element.

Parameters:

namespace - the namespace

name - the property name

attrs - the XML attributes

Returns:

the property definition, or null if no such property exists

getDefaultPropertyDef

public abstract PropertyDef getDefaultPropertyDef()

Gets the "default" property definition.

Returns:

the default property definition, or null if no such property exists

isInlineChildProperty

public abstract boolean isInlineChildProperty(java.lang.String namespace,
                                              java.lang.String name,
                                              PropertyDef def)

Returns true if the PropertyDef is defined with an inline child element.

createBean

public abstract java.lang.Object createBean(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
                                            java.lang.String localName)
                                     throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException,
                                            java.lang.InstantiationException,
                                            java.lang.IllegalAccessException

Creates a bean, specifying the namespace URI and localName

Parameters:

namespaceURI - the namespace URI of the bean

localName - the local name of the bean

Returns:

the new bean instance

finishBean

public abstract java.lang.Object finishBean(java.lang.Object bean)

"Finishes" a bean by transforming it into the final target object. This will be called when the

Parameters:

bean - the bean created by createBean()

Returns:

the object that should be returned by the parser