| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| |
| package org.eclipse.jst.ws.internal.consumption.datamodel.beanmodel; |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * objects of this class represent a type |
| * This class is used to simplify the codegen process |
| * Because codegen may be processed differently depending on the type |
| * we can handle how each type wants the code to look for a specific task |
| * by creating a datatype and calling generic methods that are |
| * to be specialized in subclasses |
| */ |
| public interface DataType |
| { |
| |
| // Copyright |
| public static final String copyright = "(c) Copyright IBM Corporation 2000, 2002."; |
| |
| |
| public static String REL_TYPE = "type"; |
| |
| /** |
| * This function hands back the code required to go from the |
| * string the user entered to the actual type of the element |
| * @param String typeName this is the actual name of the type ie int,boolean |
| * @param String nodeName The nodeName is just the attributename + Temp. |
| * @param String the attributeName |
| * @return String convert the string to type . |
| */ |
| public String stringConversion(String typeName, String nodeName, String attributeName); |
| |
| /** |
| * Often times in order to convert a type to string, string to type or just plain provide an input form |
| * A temporary variable is used. If we run into a sitution where two of the same types are used in the |
| * same method these temporary variables share the same name space. It isnt enough to use a name |
| * because of we may have a nested scenario. Therefore any temporary variable that is used in a dataType |
| * must use a unique name apeended to the end. This name must be passed in and it is up to the user of |
| * DataType to insure it is unique. |
| * @return Unique Name |
| */ |
| public void setUniqueName(String name); |
| |
| /** |
| * This is the name each temp variable will use |
| * |
| * |
| */ |
| public String getUniqueName(); |
| |
| /** |
| * This function dictates how you want to process the |
| * incoming string from the input jsp. You may or may not use the markup |
| * function depending on the type. The simple types use it. DomElement does not |
| * @param String the name of the attribute |
| * @return String the code to be generated |
| */ |
| public String getRequestCode(String name, String id); |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * Input form returns the user input html |
| * @param String name The name of the input element |
| * @return String The form used to collect the data |
| */ |
| public String inputForm(String name); |
| |
| /** |
| * converts the type returned from the proxy |
| * back to a string |
| * @return String convert the type to string. |
| */ |
| public String TypeConversion(String name); |
| |
| /** |
| * return the type |
| * @return String the type(including package). |
| */ |
| public String getType(); |
| } |
| |