Interface ElementBindingHandler

All Superinterfaces:

ElementMetaBase

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractElementBindingHandler, ElementClassAttributeBindingHandler, ElementClassBindingHandler, ElementInterfaceBindingHandler, ElementModuleBindingHandler, ElementNamespaceBindingHandler, ElementRefectionBindingHandler, StringSplitConverterBindingHandler, StringSplitConverterStepBindingHandler

public interface ElementBindingHandler
extends ElementMetaBase

Bind ElementObjects together. This interface is used to bind a parent and child ElementObject together. For example; when both objects are an JComponent then we can add the child to the parent with the method: ((JComponent)parent).add((JComponent)child);

Version:

1.0 Aug 17, 2005

Author:

Willem Cazander

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	bindChild(Element childElement)	Do the binding of this child to the parent object.
void	createChilderen(Element parentElement)	Creates the childeren of the parent object.
Class<?>[]	getBindChildClasses()
Class<?>	getBindParentClass()

Methods inherited from interface ElementMetaBase

getDescription, getId, setDescription, setId

Method Details

getBindParentClass

Class<?> getBindParentClass()

Returns:

Returns the parent classes which this binding handler can do.

getBindChildClasses

Class<?>[] getBindChildClasses()

Returns:

Returns array of child classes which this binding handler can do.

bindChild

void bindChild(Element childElement)
        throws ElementBindingHandlerException

Do the binding of this child to the parent object.

Parameters:

childElement - The child element to bind to the parent.'

Throws:

ElementBindingHandlerException - When binding could not happen.

createChilderen

void createChilderen(Element parentElement)
              throws ElementBindingHandlerException

Creates the childeren of the parent object.

Parameters:

parentElement - The parent element to create the childeren from.'

Throws:

ElementBindingHandlerException - When binding could not happen.