info.informatica.ui.html.tag
Class FormData

java.lang.Object
  info.informatica.doc.DocumentFragment
      info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag
          info.informatica.ui.html.tag.FormData

All Implemented Interfaces:

info.informatica.doc.DocumentElement, info.informatica.html.tag.AttributeListener, DataControl, DataValue, Comparable<info.informatica.doc.DocumentFragment>

Direct Known Subclasses:

FormField, MetaField

public abstract class FormData
extends info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag
implements DataControl

Base class for all form data fields.

Author:

amengual at informatica dot info

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class info.informatica.doc.DocumentFragment

info.informatica.doc.DocumentFragment.FragmentComp, info.informatica.doc.DocumentFragment.NotFragmentComp

Method Summary

static info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag	createField(info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag t) Creates a FormData instance of a form HTMLTag.
static FormData	createField(String clase, String id, ControlName nameattr, info.informatica.doc.FragmentPosition pos)
info.informatica.html.tag.Attributes	getAttributes() Returns the tag attributes.
ControlName	getControlName() Gets the Control name (the name attribute of this tag).
FieldName	getFieldname() Returns the name of the database field associated to this entity.
Integer	getFieldSize()
Object	getFormat() Gets the format that applies to this UI element.
String[]	getStringValues() Devuelve lo introducido por el usuario.
Object	getValue() Gets the Object value of the field.
DataField	guessDataField() Try to guess the DataType from the default value, and return a temptative DataField representing this field.
void	init(DataField de) Inicializa el valor del campo
void	mapDataToUI(DataField de, Dataset ds, Map<String,Object> m)
static String	mapInputField(String fieldtype) Maps input field types to FormField classes.
void	setFieldname(FieldName name) Sets the name of the data field associated to this UI field.
void	setFormat(Object fmt) Sets the formatting object for this UI element.
void	setValue(Object o) Sets the value of the field.
void	setValue(String s)
void	setValue(String[] sa)
String	toString(info.informatica.html.CharData cdata)
String	toString(String innerstring)

Methods inherited from class info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag

align, endTag, getAlignment, getBlockPosition, getId, getName, getParent, getStyle, getStyleClass, getTagData, isSelfClosing, length, onAttributeRemoved, onAttributes, onAttributeStringSet, onDummyAttributes, setAttributes, setId, setParent, setSelfClosing, setSelfClosing, setTagData, setTagData, startTag, toString, toString, toXml, vAlign

Methods inherited from class info.informatica.doc.DocumentFragment

adjustWidth, compareTo, getCurrentPosition, getPosition, setPosition

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getFieldname

public FieldName getFieldname()

Description copied from interface: DataControl

Returns the name of the database field associated to this entity.

Specified by:

getFieldname in interface DataControl

setFieldname

public void setFieldname(FieldName name)

Description copied from interface: DataControl

Sets the name of the data field associated to this UI field.

Specified by:

setFieldname in interface DataControl

getAttributes

public info.informatica.html.tag.Attributes getAttributes()

Returns the tag attributes.

Overrides:

getAttributes in class info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag

Returns:

the attributes

getValue

public Object getValue()

Description copied from interface: DataValue

Gets the Object value of the field.

Specified by:

getValue in interface DataValue

Returns:

the Object value of the field.

getStringValues

public String[] getStringValues()

Devuelve lo introducido por el usuario.

Returns:

array of objects entered by user

setValue

public void setValue(String s)
              throws DataFieldException

Throws:

DataFieldException

setValue

public void setValue(String[] sa)
              throws DataFieldException

Throws:

DataFieldException

setValue

public void setValue(Object o)
              throws DataFieldException

Description copied from interface: DataValue

Sets the value of the field.

Must NOT perform any data validation (only UI-level validation).

Specified by:

setValue in interface DataValue

Parameters:

o - the value to be given to field.

Throws:

DataFieldException

init

public void init(DataField de)
          throws DataFieldException

Inicializa el valor del campo

Specified by:

init in interface DataControl

Throws:

DataFieldException

mapDataToUI

public void mapDataToUI(DataField de,
                        Dataset ds,
                        Map<String,Object> m)
                 throws DatasetException

Specified by:

mapDataToUI in interface DataControl

Throws:

DatasetException

toString

public String toString(info.informatica.html.CharData cdata)

toString

public String toString(String innerstring)

Overrides:

toString in class info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag

getControlName

public ControlName getControlName()

Gets the Control name (the name attribute of this tag).

Specified by:

getControlName in interface DataControl

Returns:

tag name attribute, or the ID if could not find it, otherwise returns null.

setFormat

public void setFormat(Object fmt)

Description copied from interface: DataControl

Sets the formatting object for this UI element.

It is allowed to thow an UnsupportedOperationException if the UI Control does not support formatting.

Specified by:

setFormat in interface DataControl

Parameters:

fmt - the Formatting object

getFormat

public Object getFormat()

Description copied from interface: DataControl

Gets the format that applies to this UI element.

Specified by:

getFormat in interface DataControl

Returns:

a formatting object for this element, or null if it has no format, or this object does not support formatting.

guessDataField

public DataField guessDataField()

Try to guess the DataType from the default value, and return a temptative DataField representing this field.

Returns:

a guessed DataField for this form field.

getFieldSize

public Integer getFieldSize()

createField

public static final info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag createField(info.informatica.html.tag.HTMLTag t)
                                                           throws DataViewException

Creates a FormData instance of a form HTMLTag.

Parameters:

t - the tag that may be of a form field type.

Returns:

an instance of FormData representing the tag, or null if the tag was not recognized as a form data tag.

Throws:

DataViewException

createField

public static final FormData createField(String clase,
                                         String id,
                                         ControlName nameattr,
                                         info.informatica.doc.FragmentPosition pos)
                                  throws DataViewException

Throws:

DataViewException

mapInputField

public static String mapInputField(String fieldtype)

Maps input field types to FormField classes.

Parameters:

fieldtype - type of field.

Returns:

a String with the name of the UI class associated to fieldtype, or null if no correspondence was found.