net.smartlab.web
Class PropertiesEnumeration

java.lang.Object
  net.smartlab.web.StringEnumeration
      net.smartlab.web.PropertiesEnumeration

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Comparable, org.hibernate.usertype.UserType

public abstract class PropertiesEnumeration
extends StringEnumeration

This class allows to use a properties file to define enumeration elements but needs the definition of two public constructors. Implementors of this class need to define two constructors: one without parameters which simply calls super() and an additional one taking two strings and calling super(String, String).

Author:

rlogiacco

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected static org.apache.commons.logging.Log

logger Provides logging capabilities.

Fields inherited from class net.smartlab.web.StringEnumeration

code

Constructor Summary

PropertiesEnumeration()
The empty public constructor which MUST be exposed by subclasses.

PropertiesEnumeration(java.lang.String code, java.lang.String display)
The parametrized public constructor which MUST be exposed by subclasses.

Method Summary

StringEnumeration

decode(java.lang.String code) Decodes a unique code into an instance of this class.

Methods inherited from class net.smartlab.web.StringEnumeration

assemble, compareTo, deepCopy, disassemble, equals, equals, getCode, getDisplay, hashCode, hashCode, isMutable, nullSafeGet, nullSafeSet, replace, returnedClass, sqlTypes

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

logger

protected static final org.apache.commons.logging.Log logger

Provides logging capabilities.

Constructor Detail

PropertiesEnumeration

public PropertiesEnumeration()

The empty public constructor which MUST be exposed by subclasses.

PropertiesEnumeration

public PropertiesEnumeration(java.lang.String code,
                             java.lang.String display)

The parametrized public constructor which MUST be exposed by subclasses.

Parameters:

code - the enumeration element code

display - the enumeration element display name

Method Detail

decode

public StringEnumeration decode(java.lang.String code)

Description copied from class: StringEnumeration

Decodes a unique code into an instance of this class. This method can not return null values, instead it should define a default value.

Specified by:

decode in class StringEnumeration

Parameters:

code - the code to decode.

Returns:

an instance of this class.

See Also:

StringEnumeration.decode(java.lang.String)