com.jcorporate.expresso.kernel.metadata
Class Property

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

Direct Known Subclasses:

IndexedProperty, MappedProperty, SimpleProperty

public abstract class Property

extends Object

Class that represents a parsed property from the expresso-services.xml file

Version:

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

Author:

Michael Rimov

Constructor Summary

Property()
Default constructor

Method Summary

abstract Configuration	createConfigBean(DefaultConfigBean configBean, ComponentConfig config, ComponentMetadata metadata) Override in subclasses.
String	getAccess() Retrieve the access of this property
String	getDescription() Retrieve the description for this property.
String	getName() Retrieve the name of the property
String	getType() Retrieve the java type of this property
void	setAccess(String access) Set the access of this property.
void	setDescription(String description) Set a description of this property
void	setName(String name) Set the name of the property
void	setType(String type) Sets the type of the property

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Property

public Property()

Default constructor

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Retrieve the name of the property

Returns:

java.lang.String

setName

public void setName(String name)

Set the name of the property

Parameters:

name - the name of the property

setType

public void setType(String type)

Sets the type of the property

Parameters:

type - the Java type of this property. Example: java.lang.String

getType

public String getType()

Retrieve the java type of this property

Returns:

java.lang.String the class name type for this property

setAccess

public void setAccess(String access)

Set the access of this property. (Read|Write|ReadWrite)

Parameters:

access - the Access of this property

getAccess

public String getAccess()

Retrieve the access of this property

Returns:

java.lang.String

setDescription

public void setDescription(String description)

Set a description of this property

Parameters:

description - the friendly description of this property.

getDescription

public String getDescription()

Retrieve the description for this property. This description will be used in Management programs to describe the property to the user.

Returns:

java.lang.String

createConfigBean

public abstract Configuration createConfigBean(DefaultConfigBean configBean,
                                               ComponentConfig config,
                                               ComponentMetadata metadata)

Override in subclasses. 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

Parameters:

configBean - 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)