nesstar.api
Interface Type

All Known Implementing Classes:

AType, BooleanType, CollectionType, DoubleType, FileType, FloatType, IntegerType, Method, NSMethod, ObjectType, PasswordType, RDFClass, StringType, URLType, VoidType

public interface Type

A Type, for example String or Integer, used to indicate

Created:

26 April 2002

Field Summary

static int	GET_FORM param
static int	NO_FORM param
static int	POST_DATA_FORM param
static int	POST_FORM param

Method Summary

String	getDefaultValue()
String	getFormType() Return the type for the HTML input form field.
String	getJavaSimpleType()
String	getJavaType()
String	getStringToTypeOp()
Object	getValue(NSParameter parameter, Parameters params) Read a value of the given type from the parameters
int	needsFormType()

Field Detail

NO_FORM

static final int NO_FORM

param

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Constant Field Values

GET_FORM

static final int GET_FORM

param

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POST_FORM

static final int POST_FORM

param

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POST_DATA_FORM

static final int POST_DATA_FORM

param

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Method Detail

getValue

Object getValue(NSParameter parameter,
                Parameters params)
                throws Exception

Read a value of the given type from the parameters

Parameters:

parameter -

params -

Returns:

an object

Throws:

Exception

getJavaType

String getJavaType()

Returns:

the name of the Java class that correspond to this type

getJavaSimpleType

String getJavaSimpleType()

Returns:

the name of the Java simple type that correspond to this type

getFormType

String getFormType()

Return the type for the HTML input form field.

Returns:

the type name

getStringToTypeOp

String getStringToTypeOp()

Returns:

the name of the operation to be applied to a String to get a value of this type or null if no convertion is needed

getDefaultValue

String getDefaultValue()

Returns:

the default value for this type

needsFormType

int needsFormType()

Returns:

the simple form type required to input this type