com.partnersoft.cog
Class CogSchema

java.lang.Object
  com.partnersoft.cog.CogSchema

Direct Known Subclasses:

CogBootstrapSchema, MapsCogSchema, XyCogSchema

public class CogSchema
extends java.lang.Object

A CogSchema defines the data dictionary for a set of related cogs, such as in a Codex. It defines CogTypes, which provide metadata, validation, etc. functions for Cogs and Cog-based frameworks.

Author:

Russell Cagle, Paul Reavis Copyright 2006 Partner Software, Inc.

Constructor Summary

CogSchema()
Creates an empty CogSchema.

CogSchema(CogSchema parentSchema)
Creates a CogSchema which inherits types from the given parent schema.

Method Summary

void	addInheritedSchema(CogSchema newSchema)
void	addStubStructure(java.lang.String typeName, java.lang.String coggableClassName) Add a basic structure definition for the given Coggable class name.
void	addType(CogType newType)
Cog	createNode(java.lang.String typeName) Creates a Cog with default values for the given named type.
java.util.List<CogSchema>	getInheritedSchemas()
Naming<CogType>	getTypes()
java.util.List<CogSchema>	listInheritedSchemas()
void	setTypes(Naming<CogType> newTypes)
CogType	typeNamed(java.lang.String name) Looks up a type by name.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CogSchema

public CogSchema()

Creates an empty CogSchema.

CogSchema

public CogSchema(CogSchema parentSchema)

Creates a CogSchema which inherits types from the given parent schema.

Method Detail

typeNamed

public CogType typeNamed(java.lang.String name)

Looks up a type by name. Refers to the parent if necessary; also deals with parameterized types (e.g. "List-of-Something").

Parameters:

name - name of Cog datatype.

Returns:

type for given name.

createNode

public Cog createNode(java.lang.String typeName)

Creates a Cog with default values for the given named type. This is done using the prototype value stored in the CogType.

Parameters:

typeName - name of type used to create node.

Returns:

node of the given type with default values.

addType

public void addType(CogType newType)

addInheritedSchema

public void addInheritedSchema(CogSchema newSchema)

addStubStructure

public void addStubStructure(java.lang.String typeName,
                             java.lang.String coggableClassName)

Add a basic structure definition for the given Coggable class name. This doesn't include the field names, so isn't sufficient to build a form or do validation, but is sufficient to load the Coggable from XML.

getTypes

public Naming<CogType> getTypes()

setTypes

public void setTypes(Naming<CogType> newTypes)

listInheritedSchemas

public java.util.List<CogSchema> listInheritedSchemas()

getInheritedSchemas

public java.util.List<CogSchema> getInheritedSchemas()