com.ibm.xsp.registry
Interface FacesProperty

All Superinterfaces:

FacesExtensibleNode

All Known Subinterfaces:

FacesContainerProperty, FacesMethodBindingProperty, FacesPropertyType, FacesSimpleProperty

public interface FacesProperty
extends FacesExtensibleNode

A FacesProperty represents an attribute value in the source file. It may correspond to

A property of the UIComponent or complex type implementation class

The method binding for a property of the UIComponent or complex type implementation class

An render specific attribute of a UIComponent

Method Summary

FacesLibraryFragment	getFile()
java.lang.Class<?>	getJavaClass() The java class associated with this property.
java.lang.String	getName() Return the name of this attribute.
java.lang.String	getSince()
boolean	isAttribute() True if this was declared as a jsf attribute instead of a bean property.
boolean	isRequired() Specifies that this property should always be given a value in a runtime xml page.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.xsp.registry.FacesExtensibleNode

getExtension, setExtension

Method Detail

getName

java.lang.String getName()

Return the name of this attribute.

Returns:

getJavaClass

java.lang.Class<?> getJavaClass()

The java class associated with this property. Note this is not necessarily a FacesComplexDefiniton's javaClass; it may be int.class if it's primitive or MethodBinding.class if it's a method binding or something like Map.class if it's a container. Or it may just not correspond to any FacesComplexDefiniton.

isAttribute

boolean isAttribute()

True if this was declared as a jsf attribute instead of a bean property. The difference is that a property has a set method. Attributes, without a set method, are not allowed to be set to null, according to the JSF specification.

Returns:

isRequired

boolean isRequired()

Specifies that this property should always be given a value in a runtime xml page.

Returns:

getSince

java.lang.String getSince()

getFile

FacesLibraryFragment getFile()