com.kiwisoft.utils.format
Class DefaultObjectFormat

java.lang.Object
  com.kiwisoft.utils.format.DefaultObjectFormat

All Implemented Interfaces:

ObjectFormat, TextFormat

public class DefaultObjectFormat

extends Object

implements TextFormat

Default implementation of ObjectFormat interface. Uses Object.toString() to format the objects. This class can format all objects.

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2006/03/18 15:54:03 $

Author:

Stefan Stiller

See Also:

ObjectFormat

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.kiwisoft.utils.format.ObjectFormat

DEFAULT

Constructor Summary

DefaultObjectFormat(String name)

Method Summary

boolean	canFormat(Class aClass) Returns if this class can format object of the specified class.
boolean	canParse(Class aClass) Returns if the format can create objects of the specified class from String objects.
String	format(Object value) Returns the String representing the specified value.
String	getGroup() The name of the group the format belongs to.
int	getHorizontalAlignment(Object value) Returns the horizontal alignment of the formatted text.
Icon	getIcon(Object value) Returns the icon for the specified value;
String	getName() Returns the name of this format.
Object	parse(String value, Class targetClass) Returns the Object created from the specified String.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DefaultObjectFormat

public DefaultObjectFormat(String name)

Parameters:

name - The name of the format.

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Returns the name of this format.

Specified by:

getName in interface ObjectFormat

Returns:

The name of the format.

getGroup

public String getGroup()

The name of the group the format belongs to. The group defines the sub menu under which the format will appear in the context menu.

Specified by:

getGroup in interface ObjectFormat

Returns:

null.

canFormat

public boolean canFormat(Class aClass)

Returns if this class can format object of the specified class.

Specified by:

canFormat in interface ObjectFormat

Parameters:

aClass - The class of the objects which should be formated.

Returns:

Always true.

See Also:

format(Object)

canParse

public boolean canParse(Class aClass)

Returns if the format can create objects of the specified class from String objects.

Specified by:

canParse in interface ObjectFormat

Parameters:

aClass - The class of the objects which should be created.

Returns:

Always false.

See Also:

parse(String, Class)

format

public String format(Object value)

Returns the String representing the specified value.

Specified by:

format in interface TextFormat

Parameters:

value - The object which should be formated.

Returns:

null if value is null otherwise the value of value.toString().

See Also:

ObjectFormat.canFormat(Class)

parse

public Object parse(String value,
                    Class targetClass)

Returns the Object created from the specified String.

Specified by:

parse in interface TextFormat

Parameters:

value - The String which should be parsed.

targetClass - The Class the return value should have. Can be ignored if the format handles only one class.

Returns:

This method always throws an UnsupportedOperationException.

See Also:

ObjectFormat.canParse(Class)

getIcon

public Icon getIcon(Object value)

Returns the icon for the specified value;

Specified by:

getIcon in interface TextFormat

Parameters:

value - The unformated value.

Returns:

Always null.

getHorizontalAlignment

public int getHorizontalAlignment(Object value)

Returns the horizontal alignment of the formatted text.

Specified by:

getHorizontalAlignment in interface TextFormat

Parameters:

value - The unformated value.

Returns:

Always SwingConstants.LEADING