com.bowstreet.webapp
Interface DataDefinitionContainer

All Superinterfaces:

DataDefinitionElement

All Known Subinterfaces:

PageDataContainer

All Known Implementing Classes:

Container, PageReference

public interface DataDefinitionContainer
extends DataDefinitionElement

DDContainer.java

Author:

szagieboylo Copyright (c) 2004 Bowstreet, Inc. Interface for DataDefinitionContainer. The DataDefinition is an object-based abstract of a schema. A Container will have a list of children. A Leaf will never have children.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.bowstreet.webapp.DataDefinitionElement

DISPLAY_AUTO, DISPLAY_HORIZONTAL, DISPLAY_NO_VISIBLE, DISPLAY_NONE, DISPLAY_VERTICAL, KEY_ACTIONTYPE, KEY_ALWAYS_ADD_VALIDATION_CODE, KEY_APPEND_BAD_VALUE_TO_ERROR_MSG, KEY_ATTRIBUTES, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY_ARGUMENT, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY_COLUMN1, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY_COLUMN2, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY_NODE, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY_OPERATION, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY_STANDARD_VARIABLE, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY_TEXTAFTER, KEY_COLUMN_SUMMARY_TEXTBEFORE, KEY_COLUMNALIGNMENT, KEY_COLUMNWIDTH, KEY_CREATE_ROW_METHOD, KEY_CREATE_ROW_METHODS, KEY_CUSTOMHIDELOCATION, KEY_DATA_SOURCE_MANAGER, KEY_DELETE_METHOD, KEY_DELETE_METHOD_TYPE, KEY_EMPTYDATAACTION, KEY_EMPTYDATAMESSAGE, KEY_EMPTYDATAMESSAGE_NAMEDLOCATION, KEY_EMPTYDATAMESSAGE_NODE, KEY_ERROR_MESSAGE_OVERRIDE, KEY_ESCAPEOUTPUTTEXT, KEY_FIELD_MERGE_DEFINITION, KEY_GENELEMENT, KEY_GENERATELABELS, KEY_HANDLEEXISTING, KEY_HAS_BEEN_RDD_PROCESSED, KEY_INFERCONTROLTYPE, KEY_IS_DATA_TRANSPARENT_CONTAINER, KEY_IS_POST_GENERATED_ELEMENT, KEY_IS_VISUALLY_TRANSPARENT_CONTAINER, KEY_ISMODELACTION, KEY_KEY_FIELD, KEY_LABELCLASS_ERROR, KEY_LABELCLASS_NOERROR, KEY_LABELTRANSLATETABLE, KEY_LABELTRANSLATEVARIABLE, KEY_LAYOUT_GRID, KEY_LOOKUP_TABLE, KEY_MODIFIERSLIST_DATAENTRY, KEY_MODIFIERSLIST_DISPLAYONLY, KEY_NO_ASSIGN_IF_VALIDATION_ERROR, KEY_ORIGINAL_DATASOURCE, KEY_PAGE_GENELEMENT, KEY_PUT_ASSIGN_IN_TRY_CATCH, KEY_RADIO_GROUP_STYLE_CLASS, KEY_RENDEROUTERPAGE, KEY_REQUIREDPROMPT, KEY_REQUIREDPROMPTPLACEMENT, KEY_RESOURCE_KEY_PREFIX, KEY_SELECT_OPTIONS, KEY_SEPARATOR, KEY_SPLIT_CHILDREN_INTO_COLUMNS, KEY_TRANSLATE_HTML_LABELS, KEY_UNIQUE_ID_LEVEL, KEY_USINGCHECKBOXES, KEY_VALIDATIONERRORPLACEMENT, KEY_VARIABLENAME, TYPE_ANYTYPE, TYPE_BOOLEAN, TYPE_BYTE, TYPE_DATE, TYPE_DATETIME, TYPE_DECIMAL, TYPE_DOUBLE, TYPE_FLOATINGPOINT, TYPE_INT, TYPE_INTEGER, TYPE_LONG, TYPE_NEGINT, TYPE_NONNEGINT, TYPE_NONPOSINT, TYPE_POSINT, TYPE_SHORT, TYPE_STRING, TYPE_TIME

Method Summary

void	addChild(DataDefinitionElement child) Add an existing element to be a child of this container.
DataDefinitionContainer	addDDContainerChild(java.lang.String name) create a new Container child
DataDefinitionLeaf	addDDLeafChild(java.lang.String name) create a new Leaf child
java.util.List	getChildren() get this Container's children.
java.lang.String	getDataPagingPageSize()
void	removeChild(DataDefinitionElement child) Remove a specific child.
void	setDataPagingPageSize(java.lang.String s) set the current DataPagingPageSize

Methods inherited from interface com.bowstreet.webapp.DataDefinitionElement

bestReadableName, findDDChild, getBooleanProperty, getBuilderCall, getDataSourceExtension, getDDParent, getDescription, getDisplayMode, getIntProperty, getIsRepeated, getIsRequired, getLabel, getName, getProperty, getShortLabel, getStringProperty, getType, getXmlProperty, putBothProperties, putLocalProperty, putProperty, setBuilderCall, setDataSourceExtension, setDescription, setDisplayMode, setIsRepeated, setIsRequired, setLabel, setShortLabel, setType

Method Detail

addChild

void addChild(DataDefinitionElement child)

Add an existing element to be a child of this container. Note that this will cause it to be removed from different parent, if necessary.

Parameters:

child -

addDDContainerChild

DataDefinitionContainer addDDContainerChild(java.lang.String name)

create a new Container child

Parameters:

name -

Returns:

The new Container

addDDLeafChild

DataDefinitionLeaf addDDLeafChild(java.lang.String name)

create a new Leaf child

Parameters:

name -

Returns:

The new Leaf

getChildren

java.util.List getChildren()

get this Container's children. Note that this List is returned to you is the real List. Don't mess it up!

Returns:

List of Children.

getDataPagingPageSize

java.lang.String getDataPagingPageSize()

Returns:

get the current DataPagingPageSize, which is the value that will be passed as pageSize to the PagingAssistant

removeChild

void removeChild(DataDefinitionElement child)

Remove a specific child. Note that this is usually the wrong answer -- more often you just want to set that child to DisplayMode DISPLAY_NONE

Parameters:

child -

setDataPagingPageSize

void setDataPagingPageSize(java.lang.String s)

set the current DataPagingPageSize

Parameters:

s - value to be passed as pageSize to the PagingAssistant