oracle.cabo.share.xml.beans
Class PropertyDef

java.lang.Object
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Direct Known Subclasses:

BasePropertyDef

public abstract class PropertyDef

extends java.lang.Object

Class for defining a bean property to the parser engine.

=-=AEW Should more of these take a ParseContext? Is there a way we can get around needing the ParseContext at all?

Constructor Summary

PropertyDef()
Creates a PropertyDef.

Method Summary

abstract java.lang.String	getName()
abstract java.lang.Class	getPropertyType() Returns the property type to which all non-null values of this property must be assignable.
abstract java.lang.Object	getValue(ParseContext context, java.lang.Object bean) Retrieves the value of this property from the bean.
abstract java.lang.Object	parseText(ParseContext context, java.lang.String text) Parses a string into the correct Java type for this class.
abstract void	setValue(ParseContext context, java.lang.Object bean, java.lang.Object value) Stores a value of this property on the bean.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PropertyDef

public PropertyDef()

Creates a PropertyDef.

Method Detail

getName

public abstract java.lang.String getName()

getValue

public abstract java.lang.Object getValue(ParseContext context,
                                          java.lang.Object bean)

Retrieves the value of this property from the bean.

Returns:

the value. Will return null if this property can only be set.

setValue

public abstract void setValue(ParseContext context,
                              java.lang.Object bean,
                              java.lang.Object value)

Stores a value of this property on the bean.

getPropertyType

public abstract java.lang.Class getPropertyType()

Returns the property type to which all non-null values of this property must be assignable.

Returns:

the property type

parseText

public abstract java.lang.Object parseText(ParseContext context,
                                           java.lang.String text)
                                    throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Parses a string into the correct Java type for this class. The returned object must be an instance of the class returned by getPropertyType().

Parameters:

context - the current parsing context

text - the text of the property

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the text cannot be parsed.