org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.define
Class BeanTag

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport
      org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.define.DefineTagSupport
          org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.define.BeanTag

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.apache.commons.jelly.Tag

Direct Known Subclasses:

ClassLoaderTag, JellyBeanTag

public class BeanTag

extends DefineTagSupport

Binds a Java bean to the given named Jelly tag so that the attributes of the tag set the bean properties..

Version:

$Revision: 155420 $

Author:

James Strachan

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport

body, context, hasTrimmed, parent, shouldTrim

Constructor Summary

BeanTag()

Method Summary

void	addAttribute(org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.Attribute attribute) Adds a new attribute definition to this dynamic tag
void	doTag(org.apache.commons.jelly.XMLOutput output)
java.lang.ClassLoader	getClassLoader()
protected java.lang.reflect.Method	getInvokeMethod(java.lang.Class theClass) Extracts the invoke method for the class if one is used.
void	setClassLoader(java.lang.ClassLoader classLoader) Sets the ClassLoader to use to load the class.
void	setClassName(java.lang.String className) Sets the Java class name to use for the tag
void	setName(java.lang.String name) Sets the name of the tag to create
void	setVarAttribute(java.lang.String varAttribute) Sets the name of the attribute used to define the bean variable that this dynamic tag will output its results as.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.define.DefineTagSupport

getTagLibrary

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport

findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, findAncestorWithClass, getBody, getBodyText, getBodyText, getContext, getParent, invokeBody, isEscapeText, isTrim, setBody, setContext, setEscapeText, setParent, setTrim, trimBody

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BeanTag

public BeanTag()

Method Detail

addAttribute

public void addAttribute(org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.Attribute attribute)

Adds a new attribute definition to this dynamic tag

doTag

public void doTag(org.apache.commons.jelly.XMLOutput output)
           throws org.apache.commons.jelly.MissingAttributeException,
                  org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException

Throws:

org.apache.commons.jelly.MissingAttributeException

org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException

setName

public void setName(java.lang.String name)

Sets the name of the tag to create

setClassName

public void setClassName(java.lang.String className)

Sets the Java class name to use for the tag

setClassLoader

public void setClassLoader(java.lang.ClassLoader classLoader)

Sets the ClassLoader to use to load the class. If no value is set then the current threads context class loader is used.

getClassLoader

public java.lang.ClassLoader getClassLoader()

Returns:

the ClassLoader to use to load classes specified by this object, the thread context loader if the context flag is set, or the class used to load this class.

setVarAttribute

public void setVarAttribute(java.lang.String varAttribute)

Sets the name of the attribute used to define the bean variable that this dynamic tag will output its results as. This defaults to 'var' though this property can be used to change this if it conflicts with a bean property called 'var'.

getInvokeMethod

protected java.lang.reflect.Method getInvokeMethod(java.lang.Class theClass)

Extracts the invoke method for the class if one is used.