org.x4o.xml.element

Interface ElementBindingHandler

All Superinterfaces:

ElementMetaBase

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractElementBindingHandler, ElementClassAttributeBindingHandler, ElementClassBindingHandler, ElementInterfaceBindingHandler, ElementModuleBindingHandler, ElementNamespaceContextBindingHandler, 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

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	doBind(Object parentObject, Object childObject, Element childElement) Do the binding of this child to the parent object.
Class<?>[]	getBindChildClasses()
Class<?>	getBindParentClass()

Methods inherited from interface org.x4o.xml.element.ElementMetaBase

getDescription, getId, setDescription, setId

Method Detail

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.

doBind

void doBind(Object parentObject,
          Object childObject,
          Element childElement)
            throws ElementBindingHandlerException

Do the binding of this child to the parent object.

Parameters:

parentObject - The parentObject of this childElement.

childObject - The childObject of this childElement.

childElement - The child element to bind to the parent.

Throws:

ElementBindingHandlerException