org.apache.commons.betwixt.io
Interface IDGenerator

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractIDGenerator, RandomIDGenerator, SequentialIDGenerator

public interface IDGenerator

Interface allowing pluggable ID attribute value generators.

IDGenerator's are used to generate ID attribute values by BeanWriter. A user can specify the generation mechanism by passing an implementation to AbstractBeanWriter.setIdGenerator(org.apache.commons.betwixt.io.IDGenerator).

Standard implementations are included with that supply random and sequantial values.

Version:

$Revision: 438373 $

Author:

Robert Burrell Donkin

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getLastId() Get the last ID value generated.
java.lang.String	nextId() Generate a new ID attribute value.

Method Detail

getLastId

java.lang.String getLastId()

Get the last ID value generated.

Returns:

the last value generated

nextId

java.lang.String nextId()

Generate a new ID attribute value.

Returns:

next value