alma.acs.entityutil

Class EntityTFinder

java.lang.Object

alma.acs.entityutil.EntityTFinder

public class EntityTFinder
extends java.lang.Object

Takes the binding object that represents an (xml) entity object, and finds the child element of type alma.entities.commonentity.EntityT. This element contains administrational information like id, schema version etc. and is required in the xml schema in order for the object to be an ACS entity object.

Author:

hsommer May 6, 2003 5:31:11 PM

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EntityTFinder(java.util.logging.Logger logger)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
EntityT	extractEntityT(java.lang.Object entityObj) Extracts the EntityT child of entityObj.
java.lang.reflect.Method	getEntityTMethod(java.lang.Class entityClass) Only finds the method that can return the EntityT object.
void	setVerbose(boolean verbose)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EntityTFinder

public EntityTFinder(java.util.logging.Logger logger)

Method Detail

getEntityTMethod

public java.lang.reflect.Method getEntityTMethod(java.lang.Class entityClass)
                                          throws EntityException

Only finds the method that can return the EntityT object. Uses introspection.

Generally, the users are expected to not call this method, but use extractEntityT(Object) instead.

Parameters:

entityClass - the class of the entity object (e.g. alma.xmljbind.test.schedblock.SchedBlock.class)

Returns:

the method of entityClass which returns the EntityT object.

Throws:

EntityException - if no such method can be found.

extractEntityT

public EntityT extractEntityT(java.lang.Object entityObj)
                       throws EntityException

Extracts the EntityT child of entityObj. Implementation uses getEntityTMethod(java.lang.Class).

Parameters:

entityObj - the entity object, e.g. an alma.xmljbind.test.schedblock.SchedBlock.

Returns:

the administrational data of type EntityT, possibly null.

Throws:

EntityException - if there is no method returning an EntityT assignable object, or if the invocation of that method fails.

setVerbose

public void setVerbose(boolean verbose)