org.sapia.soto
Class Attribute

java.lang.Object
  org.sapia.soto.Attribute

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ObjectCreationCallback

public class Attribute
extends java.lang.Object
implements org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ObjectCreationCallback

An instance of this class represents a Service attribute. Attributes are specified as part of a service configuration. They allow adding runtime metadata to services in a non-programmatic way, through configuration, in a manner similar to JMX attributes.

Author:

Yanick Duchesne

Copyright:

Copyright © 2002-2005 Sapia Open Source Software. All Rights Reserved.

License:

Read the license.txt file of the jar or visit the license page at the Sapia OSS web site

Constructor Summary

Attribute()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getLocalName()
java.lang.String	getName()
java.lang.String	getNameSpace()
java.lang.String	getValue()
java.lang.Object	onCreate()
Attribute	setName(java.lang.String name) Sets this attribute's name, that should be of the form namespace:localname.
Attribute	setValue(java.lang.String value)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Attribute

public Attribute()

Method Detail

setName

public Attribute setName(java.lang.String name)

Sets this attribute's name, that should be of the form namespace:localname. The namespace is optional.

Parameters:

name - this attribute's name.

getNameSpace

public java.lang.String getNameSpace()

Returns:

the "namespace" part of this attribute's name.

getLocalName

public java.lang.String getLocalName()

Returns:

the "local name" part of this attribute's name.

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns:

the fully qualified name of this attribute.

setValue

public Attribute setValue(java.lang.String value)

Parameters:

value - some string value.

Returns:

this instance.

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

Returns:

this instance's value.

onCreate

public java.lang.Object onCreate()
                          throws org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ConfigurationException

Specified by:

onCreate in interface org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ObjectCreationCallback

Throws:

org.sapia.util.xml.confix.ConfigurationException

See Also:

ObjectCreationCallback.onCreate()