com.teamkonzept.dom4jb.beans.infos
Class CollectionXMLBeanInfo

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.teamkonzept.dom4jb.beans.infos.ObjectXMLBeanInfo
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        +--com.teamkonzept.dom4jb.beans.infos.CollectionXMLBeanInfo

All Implemented Interfaces:

XMLBeanInfo

Direct Known Subclasses:

Collections.UnmodifiableCollectionXMLBeanInfo, ListXMLBeanInfo, SetXMLBeanInfo, VectorXMLBeanInfo

public class CollectionXMLBeanInfo

extends ObjectXMLBeanInfo

This is the default XMLBeanInfo defining how a collection will be represented.

Every java.util.Collection object will be represented as follows:

• the element content is a collection of elements. Each element is named by the name returned by the getItemName() method of the corresponding XMLBeanInfo object. Also the item itself is represened by means of the corresponding XMLBeanInfo object.

  Example: A collection of integer-objects will be represented like this:

  <items> <item>1</item> <item>2</item> <item>3</item> </items>

  whereby the sourrounding element <items> may differ.

• as empty attribute value
• which contributes no attributes
• if the object is an item in a collection, the surrounding element name is the item name specified by COLLECTION_ITEM_NAME

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Carsten Krebs

See Also:

COLLECTION_ITEM_NAME

Field Summary

static String

COLLECTION_ITEM_NAME the item name, returned by getItemName().

Fields inherited from interface com.teamkonzept.dom4jb.beans.XMLBeanInfo

DEFAULT_ITEM_NAME

Constructor Summary

CollectionXMLBeanInfo()
Creates new CollectionXMLBeanInfo

Method Summary

GroupDescriptor	getContentDescriptors() Gets the group of content descriptors.
String	getItemName() Gets the item name of the bean.

Methods inherited from class com.teamkonzept.dom4jb.beans.infos.ObjectXMLBeanInfo

getAttributeDescriptors, getDataDescriptor

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

COLLECTION_ITEM_NAME

public static final String COLLECTION_ITEM_NAME

the item name, returned by getItemName().

See Also:

getItemName(), Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

CollectionXMLBeanInfo

public CollectionXMLBeanInfo()

Creates new CollectionXMLBeanInfo

Method Detail

getContentDescriptors

public GroupDescriptor getContentDescriptors()

Description copied from interface: XMLBeanInfo

Gets the group of content descriptors. Every content descriptor defines the mapping of the bean properties to the content of an XML element.

Specified by:

getContentDescriptors in interface XMLBeanInfo

Overrides:

getContentDescriptors in class ObjectXMLBeanInfo

See Also:

XMLBeanInfo.getContentDescriptors()

getItemName

public String getItemName()

Description copied from interface: XMLBeanInfo

Gets the item name of the bean. If the bean has to be expanded as part of a collection, this name is used as the surrounding element name.

Specified by:

getItemName in interface XMLBeanInfo

Overrides:

getItemName in class ObjectXMLBeanInfo

See Also:

XMLBeanInfo.getItemName()