net.xoetrope.xui.data
Class XDataBindingFactory

java.lang.Object
  net.xoetrope.xui.data.XDataBindingFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

SwtDataBindingFactory, XBasicDataBindingFactory, XOptionalBindingFactory, XRegisteredDataBindingFactory

public abstract class XDataBindingFactory
extends java.lang.Object

A factory for construction of data bindings

Copyright (c) Xoetrope Ltd., 1998-2003

$Revision: 2.3 $

Field Summary

protected XProject	currentProject
protected XAttributeEvaluator	evaluator

Constructor Summary

protected

XDataBindingFactory(XProject project)

Method Summary

abstract XDataBinding	getBinding(PageSupport page, java.lang.Object comp, java.util.Hashtable instanceConfig) Try to get a binding factory to construct the binding
protected java.lang.String	getEvaluatedAttribute(PageSupport page, java.lang.String attributeValue) Returns evaluated attribute

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

evaluator

protected XAttributeEvaluator evaluator

currentProject

protected XProject currentProject

Constructor Detail

XDataBindingFactory

protected XDataBindingFactory(XProject project)

Method Detail

getEvaluatedAttribute

protected java.lang.String getEvaluatedAttribute(PageSupport page,
                                                 java.lang.String attributeValue)

Returns evaluated attribute

Parameters:

page - the page that owns the binding and supplies the methods referenced in the evaluated attributes

attributeValue - name of the attribute to retrieve and evaluate

Returns:

evaluated attribute

getBinding

public abstract XDataBinding getBinding(PageSupport page,
                                        java.lang.Object comp,
                                        java.util.Hashtable instanceConfig)

Try to get a binding factory to construct the binding

Parameters:

page - the page that will own the binding

model - the source data model

instanceConfig - the XML element defining the binding

Returns:

the new binding if one could be constructed