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Class symantec.itools.db.beans.binding.OutputEditor

Object
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   +----PropertyEditorSupport
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           +----symantec.itools.db.beans.binding.OutputEditor

public class OutputEditor

extends PropertyEditorSupport

symantec.itools.db.beans.binding.OutputEditor()

getAsText()

getJavaInitializationString()

This method is intended for use when generating Java code to set the value of the property.

getValue()

setAsText(String)

Set the property value by parsing a given String.

setValue(Object)

Set (or change) the object that is to be edited.

public OutputEditor()

public java.lang.String getAsText()

Returns:

The property value as a string suitable for presentation to a human to edit.

Returns "null" is the value can't be expressed as a string.

If a non-null value is returned, then the PropertyEditor should be prepared to parse that string back in setAsText().

Overrides:

getAsText in class PropertyEditorSupport

public java.lang.String getJavaInitializationString()

This method is intended for use when generating Java code to set the value of the property. It should return a fragment of Java code that can be used to initialize a variable with the current property value.

Example results are "2", "new Color(127,127,34)", "Color.orange", etc.

Returns:

A fragment of Java code representing an initializer for the current value.

Overrides:

getJavaInitializationString in class PropertyEditorSupport

public java.lang.Object getValue()

Returns:

The value of the property.

Overrides:

getValue in class PropertyEditorSupport

public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException

Set the property value by parsing a given String. May raise java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if either the String is badly formatted or if this kind of property can't be expressed as text.

Parameters:

text - The string to be parsed.

Overrides:

setAsText in class PropertyEditorSupport

public void setValue(Object value)

Set (or change) the object that is to be edited.

Parameters:

value - The new target object to be edited. Note that this object should not be modified by the PropertyEditor, rather the PropertyEditor should create a new object to hold any modified value.

Overrides:

setValue in class PropertyEditorSupport

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