au.com.whitesquare.waf.taglib.html
Class SelectDataTag

java.lang.Object
  javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport
      au.com.whitesquare.waf.taglib.html.SelectDataTag

All Implemented Interfaces:

IterationTag, JspTag, Serializable, Tag

public class SelectDataTag

extends TagSupport

A tag that has a type as a String or a SelectData.
the code looks up an object in the SelectDataCache, where as the SelectData is used directly.
Classes can be registered with the cache with a specific type.
There is a data attribute that is passed into the select data element that allows customisation of the data.

The default type is DYNAMIC, it accepts comma (,) seperated sets of data to show as the options.

Last Modified $Date: 2006/09/01 13:29:00 $

Version:

$Revision: 1.9 $

Author:

Steve Mactaggart

See Also:

DefaultSelectDataRenderer, Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport

id, pageContext

Fields inherited from interface javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.IterationTag

EVAL_BODY_AGAIN

Fields inherited from interface javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag

EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE, EVAL_PAGE, SKIP_BODY, SKIP_PAGE

Constructor Summary

SelectDataTag()

Method Summary

int	doStartTag()
String[]	getSelectClasses()
String[]	getSelectValues() Returns an array of strings that contain the values to put into the option elements.
String[]	getTexts() Returns an array of strings that contain the text chunks to show to the user in the option elements.
void	init()
void	release()
void	setData(String data)
void	setType(Object type) The type of data to render, depending on the data supplied different logic will occur.

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport

doAfterBody, doEndTag, findAncestorWithClass, getId, getParent, getValue, getValues, removeValue, setId, setPageContext, setParent, setValue

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SelectDataTag

public SelectDataTag()

Method Detail

doStartTag

public int doStartTag()
               throws JspException

Throws:

JspException

See Also:

Tag.doStartTag()

init

public void init()

release

public void release()

See Also:

Tag.release()

getTexts

public String[] getTexts()

Returns an array of strings that contain the text chunks to show to the user in the option elements.

Returns:

the text elements to render to the user.

getSelectValues

public String[] getSelectValues()

Returns an array of strings that contain the values to put into the option elements.

Returns:

the value elements to put in the option elements.

setType

public void setType(Object type)

The type of data to render, depending on the data supplied different logic will occur. The class needs to be either a String or a SelectData, if the data element is a String its key to a pre-configured set of elements to render, otherwise in this case an actual SelectData element that will contain the elements to render.

Parameters:

type - the key to a pre-configured set of elements to render.

setData

public void setData(String data)

Parameters:

data - The data to set.

getSelectClasses

public String[] getSelectClasses()

Returns: