com.teamkonzept.dom4jb.beans.infos
Class ObjectXMLBeanInfo

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

XMLBeanInfo

Direct Known Subclasses:

ClassXMLBeanInfo, CollectionXMLBeanInfo, StringXMLBeanInfo

public class ObjectXMLBeanInfo

extends Object

implements XMLBeanInfo

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

Every native java.lang.Object object will be represented as follows:

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

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Carsten Krebs

See Also:

XMLBeanInfo.DEFAULT_ITEM_NAME

Field Summary

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

DEFAULT_ITEM_NAME

Constructor Summary

ObjectXMLBeanInfo()
Creates new ObjectXMLBeanInfo

Method Summary

GroupDescriptor	getAttributeDescriptors() Gets the group of attribute descriptors.
GroupDescriptor	getContentDescriptors() Gets the group of content descriptors.
DataDescriptor	getDataDescriptor() Gets the data descriptor.
String	getItemName() Gets the item name of the bean.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ObjectXMLBeanInfo

public ObjectXMLBeanInfo()

Creates new ObjectXMLBeanInfo

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

Returns:

Content descriptor defining the properties which describes element content.

May return null if the bean has no properties representing element content.

See Also:

XMLBeanInfo.getContentDescriptors()

getAttributeDescriptors

public GroupDescriptor getAttributeDescriptors()

Description copied from interface: XMLBeanInfo

Gets the group of attribute descriptors. Every attribute descriptor defines the mapping of the bean properties to a collection of element attributes.

Specified by:

getAttributeDescriptors in interface XMLBeanInfo

Returns:

Attribute descriptor defining the properties which describes element attributes.

May return null if the bean has no properties representing element attributes.

See Also:

XMLBeanInfo.getAttributeDescriptors()

getDataDescriptor

public DataDescriptor getDataDescriptor()

Description copied from interface: XMLBeanInfo

Gets the data descriptor. That is a descriptor which defines how the bean will be transformed into character data. Every time the bean is used as attribute value this data descriptor is used.

Specified by:

getDataDescriptor in interface XMLBeanInfo

Returns:

Data descriptor defining the character data representation of the bean.

May return null if the bean has no character data representation

See Also:

XMLBeanInfo.getDataDescriptor()

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

Returns:

Item name

May return null if the default item name should be used

See Also:

XMLBeanInfo.getItemName()