com.dynamide.db
Interface IDatasourceBasic

All Known Subinterfaces:
IDatasource
All Known Implementing Classes:
DatasourceHelper, Login, RDBDatasource, Session, SimpleDatasource

public interface IDatasourceBasic

A one-way navigable datasource, that has read-only data. Columns are wrapped in com.dynamide.Field objects that are registered with the com.dynamide.Session so that the Widgets can automatically get live data. If you wish to provide navigation such as seekBegin(), seekEnd(), go(relative) and to provide update capability such as setFieldValue(...) then use com.dynamide.db.IDatasource instead.

Implementations may wish to provide the following method or constructor arguments which are not part of the interface:


Method Summary
 java.lang.Object get(java.lang.String what)
          Implementors can return an Object from this method, but make sure that toString() makes sense.
 IDatasource getDatasourceHelper()
          By default, return a com.dynamide.db.DatasourceHelper(IDatasourceBasic), e.g.
 Field getField(java.lang.String fieldName)
          Maintain a list of Field objects, and register them with the Session; return the live Field when asked by this method.
 java.util.Map getFields()
           
 java.lang.String getID()
          A unique name within the Application for this datasource, it becomes the ID by which Widgets can discover the datasource.
 java.util.Iterator iterator()
          Return an Iterator which knows how to properly iterate over your implementation.
 

Method Detail

getID

java.lang.String getID()
A unique name within the Application for this datasource, it becomes the ID by which Widgets can discover the datasource.


getDatasourceHelper

IDatasource getDatasourceHelper()
By default, return a com.dynamide.db.DatasourceHelper(IDatasourceBasic), e.g.
 private IDatasource m_datasourceHelper = null;

 public IDatasource getDatasourceHelper(){
     if (m_datasourceHelper == null){
        m_datasourceHelper = new DatasourceHelper(this);
     }
     return m_datasourceHelper;
 }
 
or return a subclass of DatasourceHelper or a class that implements IDatasource by forwarding correct methods to this class, e.g. your own policy. Under most circumstances, DatasourceHelper should fulfil all requirements. DatasourceHelper simply wraps your IDatasourceBasic and makes it able to respond to the calls in IDatasource.


getField

Field getField(java.lang.String fieldName)
Maintain a list of Field objects, and register them with the Session; return the live Field when asked by this method.


getFields

java.util.Map getFields()
Returns:
a Map of all the fields owned.

get

java.lang.Object get(java.lang.String what)
                     throws java.lang.Exception
Implementors can return an Object from this method, but make sure that toString() makes sense. Dynamide won't automatically call toString() on the returned Object, but WebMacro will default to doing this if, for example, $datasource.get("foo") is in a Page or Widget template. A standard strategy would be to search for Property objects, then Fields, returning the Field.getValue() or Field.getStringValue().

Throws:
java.lang.Exception

iterator

java.util.Iterator iterator()
Return an Iterator which knows how to properly iterate over your implementation. You can support remove(), or throw an UnsupportedOperationException. Single-row datasource would return an iterator that returned one row, then set hasNext to false. All implementations should provide one row of data, even if this row contains only empty strings for values. For single row datasets, here is a simple implementation, which can be done in an inner class:
  public class MyClass implements IDatasourceBasic{
      public class MyDatasourceIterator implements Iterator {
          private MyClass m_target;
          private int m_iterCount = 0;
          public SessionDatasourceIterator(MyClass target){
              m_target = target;
          }
          public Object next(){
              m_iterCount++;
              return m_target;
          }
          public boolean hasNext(){
              return (m_iterCount < 1);
          }
          public void remove(){
              throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
          }
      }
  }
 



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