com.jcorporate.expresso.kernel.metadata
Class MappedProperty

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

public class MappedProperty

extends Property

Metadata class that represents a MappedProperty

Since:

Expresso 5.1

Version:

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

Author:

Michael Rimov

Constructor Summary

MappedProperty()
Default constructor

Method Summary

Configuration	createConfigBean(DefaultConfigBean targetBean, ComponentConfig config, ComponentMetadata metadata) Load the configBean with values for this property.
String	getMappedValue(String key) Retrieve the value of the mapped property.
Map	getValues() Retrieve a list of all mapped property values.
void	setMappedValue(String key, String value) Set the Mapped property's 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

MappedProperty

public MappedProperty()

Default constructor

Method Detail

setMappedValue

public void setMappedValue(String key,
                           String value)

Set the Mapped property's value

Parameters:

key - the key of the mapped property.

value - the value of the mapped property

getMappedValue

public String getMappedValue(String key)

Retrieve the value of the mapped property.

Parameters:

key - the key of the mapped property

Returns:

java.lang.String

getValues

public Map getValues()

Retrieve a list of all mapped property values.

Returns:

java.util.map

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)