com.mentata.sg8
Class SG8NestAttribute

java.lang.Object
  com.mentata.l3d.L3DAttribute
      com.mentata.l3d.L3DDnAttribute
          com.mentata.sg8.SG8DnAttribute
              com.mentata.sg8.SG8NestAttribute

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparator, SG8Attribute

Direct Known Subclasses:

SG8ReverseNestAttribute

public class SG8NestAttribute

extends SG8DnAttribute

A dn attribute displaying an additional field for use with SG8 objects. For HTML output, values for this attribute type are translated to a list that nests the values of an additional attribute for each matching entry. An instance can represent a tree with recursive descent if the second attribute is also a nest attribute.

Since:

0.7

Author:

Jon Roberts

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.mentata.sg8.SG8Attribute

TEXT_RESOURCES

Constructor Summary

SG8NestAttribute(String object, String nested)
Constructs a new nest attribute with a named target object and attribute.

Method Summary

String[]

getHTMLValues() Returns HTML links with nested attributes.

Methods inherited from class com.mentata.sg8.SG8DnAttribute

getHyperlink, getMailTo, getSeparator, getSG8Object, getSG8Target, getUpdateHTML, isAugmenting, isHTMLExceeded, processUpdateHTML, setAugmenting, setHTMLThreshold, setSeparator

Methods inherited from class com.mentata.l3d.L3DDnAttribute

getShortValues, getTargetObject, initialize, isLengthExceeded, same

Methods inherited from class com.mentata.l3d.L3DAttribute

addValue, compare, getAttribute, getBind, getContext, getLabel, getLengthThreshold, getName, getObject, getObject, getPrerequisites, getSize, getThreshold, getValues, isBound, isExceeded, isGenerated, isMultivalue, isRequired, removeValue, setGenerated, setLabel, setLengthThreshold, setPrerequisites, setThreshold, setValues

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Comparator

equals

Constructor Detail

SG8NestAttribute

public SG8NestAttribute(String object,
                        String nested)

Constructs a new nest attribute with a named target object and attribute.

Parameters:

object - the name of the target object

nested - the name of the attribute to include as nested

Method Detail

getHTMLValues

public String[] getHTMLValues()
                       throws SG8Exception

Returns HTML links with nested attributes.

Specified by:

getHTMLValues in interface SG8Attribute

Overrides:

getHTMLValues in class SG8DnAttribute

Returns:

the values formatted as HTML unordered lists

Throws:

SG8Exception - if the target object is improperly defined