oracle.cabo.ui.data
Interface DataObject

All Known Subinterfaces:

BeanDOAdapter, DataSet, KeyedDataObject, MutableDataObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

DataObject10Adapter, SimpleTreeData, BrowseNodeDataObject, PageEventDataObject

public interface DataObject

The DataObject interface provides an extremely simple API for retrieving arbitrarily structured data. All "queries" are based simply on a selection string. It is entirely up to an implementation of this interface to define the syntax for these strings.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

selectValue(RenderingContext context, java.lang.Object select) Given a select string, returns the value matching that selection.

Method Detail

selectValue

public java.lang.Object selectValue(RenderingContext context,
                                    java.lang.Object select)

Given a select string, returns the value matching that selection. It is legal to return null if the select key doesn't match anything.

Parameters:

context - the current rendering context

select - a select criterion, syntax as defined by the data object