com.webobjects.appserver
Interface WOAssociationFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

WODefaultAssociationFactory

public interface WOAssociationFactory

Since:

5.4

Method Summary

WOAssociation	createConstantAssociation(Object value) Creates a new WOAssociation with a constant value.
WOAssociation	createKeyValueAssociation(String keyPath) Creates a new WOAssociation that reads from a Key-Value Coding expression.
WOAssociation	createSchemedAssociation(String scheme, String content) Creates a WOAssociation with the given scheme name and content.

Method Detail

createConstantAssociation

WOAssociation createConstantAssociation(Object value)

Creates a new WOAssociation with a constant value.

Parameters:

value - constant value

Returns:

WOAssocation with a constant value.

Since:

5.4

createKeyValueAssociation

WOAssociation createKeyValueAssociation(String keyPath)

Creates a new WOAssociation that reads from a Key-Value Coding expression. If the expression is a parent binding the keyPath will start with the "^" character.

Parameters:

keyPath - Key path to use. May start with "^" for parent association

Returns:

WOAssociation that binds to a key-value coding expression

Since:

5.4

createSchemedAssociation

WOAssociation createSchemedAssociation(String scheme,
                                       String content)
                                       throws WOSchemeNotSupportedException

Creates a WOAssociation with the given scheme name and content. The content is the unparsed contents of the scheme specifier and will have to be interpreted by the scheme handler.

Parameters:

scheme - Name of the scheme to which the content belongs.

content - Raw text of the scheme contents.

Returns:

WOAssociation for the given scheme and content.

Throws:

WOSchemeNotSupportedException

Since:

5.4