com.jcorporate.expresso.kernel.metadata
Class IndexedProperty

java.lang.Object
  com.jcorporate.expresso.kernel.metadata.Property
      com.jcorporate.expresso.kernel.metadata.IndexedProperty

public class IndexedProperty

extends Property

Bean describing an indexed property. Note because of the potential weirdness of receiving indexed values, this class simply implements the index as a key in a TreeMap so that we can retrieve all the values in order

Version:

$Revision: 1.6 $ on $Date: 2004/11/17 20:48:17 $

Author:

Michael Rimov

Constructor Summary

IndexedProperty()
Default Constructor

Method Summary

Configuration	createConfigBean(DefaultConfigBean targetBean, ComponentConfig config, ComponentMetadata metadata) Load the configBean with values for this property.
String	getIndexedValue(int index) Retrieve a value at a certain index
Map	getValues() Retrieve a map of all indicies and their corresponding values for this property
void	setIndexedValue(int index, String value) Set an indexed value

Methods inherited from class com.jcorporate.expresso.kernel.metadata.Property

getAccess, getDescription, getName, getType, setAccess, setDescription, setName, setType

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

IndexedProperty

public IndexedProperty()

Default Constructor

Method Detail

setIndexedValue

public void setIndexedValue(int index,
                            String value)

Set an indexed value

Parameters:

index - the index of the property

value - the value to set for that index

getValues

public Map getValues()

Retrieve a map of all indicies and their corresponding values for this property

Returns:

java.util.Map

getIndexedValue

public String getIndexedValue(int index)

Retrieve a value at a certain index

Parameters:

index - the index to retrieve the value for

Returns:

java.lang.String

createConfigBean

public Configuration createConfigBean(DefaultConfigBean targetBean,
                                      ComponentConfig config,
                                      ComponentMetadata metadata)

Load the configBean with values for this property. If there are any values present in the ComponentConfig, then use those properties, if empty, use your own default values as specified in the ComponentMetadata

Specified by:

createConfigBean in class Property

Parameters:

targetBean - The configBean to populate with this property.

config - the current configuration as loaded from the expresso config.xml file

metadata - the current metadata for this component

Returns:

the Configuration interface (actually uslaly the configbean parameter)