de.mguennewig.pobjform.html
Class PObjHtmlForm

java.lang.Object
  de.mguennewig.pobjform.AbstractPObjForm
      de.mguennewig.pobjform.html.PObjHtmlForm

All Implemented Interfaces:

PObjForm

Direct Known Subclasses:

PClassHtmlSearchForm

public abstract class PObjHtmlForm
extends AbstractPObjForm

A HTML form based implementation of the PObjForm interface.

Author:

Michael Günnewig

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class de.mguennewig.pobjform.AbstractPObjForm

ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, ERROR_MANDATORY

Constructor Summary

PObjHtmlForm(Container db)
Creates a new PObject-enhanced HTML form with initialized elements.

Method Summary

FormElement	createFormElement(FormEntry entry) Creates a FormElement for one specified FormEntry.
HtmlFormElement	narrowFormElement(HtmlFormElement fe)
void	read(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Reads the internal state from the HTTP request.
void	write(Layout w) Writes the form into the HTML stream.
void	write(Layout w, FormEntry entry) Writes the form entry into the HTML stream.
void	write(Layout w, FormEntry[] entries) Writes the form entries into the HTML stream.
void	writeElement(Layout w, FormEntry entry, boolean hidden) Writes the form elements of the given entry directly to the layout.

Methods inherited from class de.mguennewig.pobjform.AbstractPObjForm

addErrorMessage, addInvalidValueMessage, addMandatoryMessage, addMessage, addSuccessMessage, clearMessage, clearMessages, dumpMessages, extractIndexes, getContainer, getElementLabelKey, getElements, getMessageCount, getMessageCount, getMessageProperties, getMessages, getMessages, hasChanged, hasChanged, hasChanged, hasMessages, populateForm, populateForm, populateObject, populateObject, setContainer, setCurrentAsInitialState, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface de.mguennewig.pobjform.PObjForm

getElement, getFormDecl

Constructor Detail

PObjHtmlForm

public PObjHtmlForm(Container db)

Creates a new PObject-enhanced HTML form with initialized elements.

Parameters:

db - The database container to use to acquire the persistent objects.

Method Detail

createFormElement

public FormElement createFormElement(FormEntry entry)

Description copied from interface: PObjForm

Creates a FormElement for one specified FormEntry.

narrowFormElement

public HtmlFormElement narrowFormElement(HtmlFormElement fe)

read

public void read(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Reads the internal state from the HTTP request.

write

public void write(Layout w)

Writes the form into the HTML stream.

write

public final void write(Layout w,
                        FormEntry entry)

Writes the form entry into the HTML stream.

write

public final void write(Layout w,
                        FormEntry[] entries)

Writes the form entries into the HTML stream.

writeElement

public final void writeElement(Layout w,
                               FormEntry entry,
                               boolean hidden)

Writes the form elements of the given entry directly to the layout.

This method is intended for to write only simple form elements as it does not write the possible sub-elements of the specified form element unless the element does it itself like a radio element.

The element is not put into a HTML table like the write methods do.