com.jcorporate.expresso.kernel.metadata
Class SimpleProperty

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

public class SimpleProperty

extends Property

Metadata class that represents a simple property for an Expresso component

Version:

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

Author:

Michael Rimov

Constructor Summary

SimpleProperty()
Default Constructor

Method Summary

void	addValidValue(String key, String value) Add a valid value for the property
Configuration	createConfigBean(DefaultConfigBean targetBean, ComponentConfig config, ComponentMetadata metadata) Load the configBean with values for this property.
String	getValue() Retrieve the value of the property
List	retrieveValidValues() Retrieve a list of valid values for this particular property.
void	setValue(String value) Set the value of the property

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

SimpleProperty

public SimpleProperty()

Default Constructor

Method Detail

setValue

public void setValue(String value)

Set the value of the property

Parameters:

value - java.lang.String

getValue

public String getValue()

Retrieve the value of the property

Returns:

java.lang.String

addValidValue

public void addValidValue(String key,
                          String value)

Add a valid value for the property

Parameters:

key - the 'key' or internal value

value - the friendly value to be displayed in management systems.

retrieveValidValues

public List retrieveValidValues()

Retrieve a list of valid values for this particular property.

Returns:

List of valid value objects

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)