com.sap.netweaver.bc.serialize.util

Class PropertiesCoder

java.lang.Object

com.sap.netweaver.bc.serialize.util.PropertiesCoder

public final class PropertiesCoder
extends Object

Encodes/Decodes properties of a resource to a format that can be used for writing/reading the properties from an XML-source

Copyright 2004 SAP AG

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	PropertiesCoder.PropertiesDecodeException

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	ATTR_COUNT
static String	ATTR_VALUE
static String	TAG_PROP_SERVICE
static String	TAG_PROPERTIES
static String	TAG_PROPERTY
static String	TAG_PROPERTY_SIZE
static String	TAG_PROPERTY_VALUE
static Set	TAGS

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PropertiesCoder()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static IProperty	decode(Attributes attr, List values) Decodes a property from the data in the XML-file
static Properties	getDefinition(IProperty prop) Writes out all definition parts of the property into the returned Properties instance
static List	getValues(IProperty prop)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

TAG_PROP_SERVICE

public static final String TAG_PROP_SERVICE

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Constant Field Values

TAG_PROPERTIES

public static final String TAG_PROPERTIES

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TAG_PROPERTY

public static final String TAG_PROPERTY

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TAG_PROPERTY_VALUE

public static final String TAG_PROPERTY_VALUE

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TAG_PROPERTY_SIZE

public static final String TAG_PROPERTY_SIZE

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ATTR_VALUE

public static final String ATTR_VALUE

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ATTR_COUNT

public static final String ATTR_COUNT

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TAGS

public static final Set TAGS

Constructor Detail

PropertiesCoder

public PropertiesCoder()

Method Detail

getDefinition

public static Properties getDefinition(IProperty prop)

Writes out all definition parts of the property into the returned Properties instance

Parameters:

prop - the property of a resource to encode, must not be null

Returns:

a Properties instance holding the definition

getValues

public static List getValues(IProperty prop)

Parameters:

prop - the property to retrieve the value(s) of. Must not be null.

Returns:

the values of the list as String objects. If the property is of type DATE, this value is transformed using the DateTimeFormat.format() method. This list might be empty, but never null

decode

public static IProperty decode(Attributes attr,
                               List values)
                        throws ResourceException

Decodes a property from the data in the XML-file

Parameters:

attr - the attributes representation in the xml-file of the ContentHandler

values - values

Returns:

the decoded resource properties

Throws:

ResourceException - on error