com.tailf.conf

Class ConfTypeDescriptor

Object

com.tailf.conf.ConfObject

com.tailf.conf.ConfTypeDescriptor

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable

public class ConfTypeDescriptor
extends ConfObject

Conf value type descriptor. This class is used to represent the type of an arbitrary Conf value. It also contains helper methods to create ConfValue classes from String representations *

Example:

 ConfTypeDescriptor typeDesc = new ConfTypeDescriptor(ConfObject.J_BUF);
 ConfBuf buf = (ConfBuf) typeDesc.newInstance("Hello");
 

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.tailf.conf.ConfObject

J_BINARY, J_BIT32, J_BIT64, J_BOOL, J_BUF, J_CDBBEGIN, J_DATE, J_DATETIME, J_DECIMAL64, J_DEFAULT, J_DOUBLE, J_DQUAD, J_DURATION, J_ENUMERATION, J_HEXSTR, J_IDENTITYREF, J_INSTANCE_IDENTIFIER, J_INT16, J_INT32, J_INT64, J_INT8, J_IPV4, J_IPV4_AND_PLEN, J_IPV4PREFIX, J_IPV6, J_IPV6_AND_PLEN, J_IPV6PREFIX, J_LIST, J_NOEXISTS, J_OBJECTREF, J_OID, J_PTR, J_QNAME, J_STR, J_SYMBOL, J_TIME, J_UINT16, J_UINT32, J_UINT64, J_UINT8, J_UNION, J_XMLBEGIN, J_XMLBEGINDEL, J_XMLEND, J_XMLTAG

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ConfTypeDescriptor(int type) Constructor for ConfTypeDescriptor class

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ConfEObject	encode()
boolean	equals(Object o) Determine if two Conf objects are equal.
static ConfTypeDescriptor	getConfTypeDescriptor(ConfObject o) Generates a ConfTypeDescriptor representing the type of a specified ConfObject.
int	getType()
int	hashCode()
ConfValue	newInstance(String str) Creates a new ConfValue instance of the type described by this ConfTypeDescriptor and with a value represented by a string.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class com.tailf.conf.ConfObject

clone, decode

Methods inherited from class Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ConfTypeDescriptor

public ConfTypeDescriptor(int type)

Constructor for ConfTypeDescriptor class

Parameters:

type - int representation for ConfValue type ConfObject

Method Detail

encode

public ConfEObject encode()

Specified by:

encode in class ConfObject

equals

public boolean equals(Object o)

Description copied from class: ConfObject

Determine if two Conf objects are equal. In general, Conf objects are equal if the components they consist of are equal.

Specified by:

equals in class ConfObject

Parameters:

o - the object to compare to.

Returns:

true if the objects are identical.

getConfTypeDescriptor

public static ConfTypeDescriptor getConfTypeDescriptor(ConfObject o)

Generates a ConfTypeDescriptor representing the type of a specified ConfObject.

Parameters:

o - ConfObject instance from which a ConfTypeDescriptor should be generated

Returns:

the ConfTypeDescriptor or null if ConfObject is of unknown type

getType

public int getType()

Returns:

int representation for ConfValue type ConfObject

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Specified by:

hashCode in class ConfObject

newInstance

public ConfValue newInstance(String str)
                      throws ConfException

Creates a new ConfValue instance of the type described by this ConfTypeDescriptor and with a value represented by a string.

Parameters:

str - the string representation of the value

Returns:

the created ConfValue instance

Throws:

ConfException

toString

public String toString()

Specified by:

toString in class ConfObject

Returns:

the printable representation of the object.