com.raritantechnologies.concept.clustering
Class SearchFormClustererRenderer

java.lang.Object
  com.raritantechnologies.concept.clustering.BasicClustererRenderer
      com.raritantechnologies.concept.clustering.SearchFormClustererRenderer

All Implemented Interfaces:

IClustererRenderer, IConfigurable

public class SearchFormClustererRenderer

extends BasicClustererRenderer

Converts a set of clustered results into a single metadata set and forwards this to a SearchFormRenderer.

XML Configuration Template:

   <ClustererRenderer class="com.raritantechnologies.concept.clustering.SearchFormClustererRenderer" >

     <SearchFormRenderer class="[ class of com.raritantechnologies.searchApp.taglibrary.ISearchFormRenderer ]" 
                            searchFormName="[ name of form ]"
                            categoryName="[ name of search source category ]"
                            initialFields="[  field=value|field2=value2 pairs of initial form parameters ]"
                            hiddenFields="[ field=value|field2=value2 paris of hidden parameter ]" 
                            action="[ form action URL ]"
                            formInitArgs="[ argments added to <form> tag ]" >

       <!-- Initialization parameter for SearchFormRenderer -->

     </SearchFormRenderer>

     <!-- Optional ResultMatcher to select results for use as SearchForm field / value pairs

     <Fields>
       <Field resultField="[ name of field ]" formField="[ name of field in form ]"
                 useValue="ALL|FIRST|LAST (if single value)" >

       </Field>
     </Fields>

   </ClustererRenderer>
 

Developed by Raritan Technologies .

Author:

Ted Sullivan

Constructor Summary

SearchFormClustererRenderer()

Method Summary

void	initialize(org.w3c.dom.Element elem) Initializes the object from an XML tag or element.
java.lang.String	renderClusterer(java.lang.String sessionID, IClusterer clusterer, RaritanPageContext rpc)

Methods inherited from class com.raritantechnologies.concept.clustering.BasicClustererRenderer

renderClusterer

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SearchFormClustererRenderer

public SearchFormClustererRenderer()

Method Detail

renderClusterer

public java.lang.String renderClusterer(java.lang.String sessionID,
                                        IClusterer clusterer,
                                        RaritanPageContext rpc)

initialize

public void initialize(org.w3c.dom.Element elem)

Description copied from interface: IConfigurable

Initializes the object from an XML tag or element. This method is called by the Framework as part of the application initializtion. see ConfigurationManager, XMLConfigurationManager, XMLSearchFieldMapFactory, XMLSearchSourceFactory. Configurable objects that are owned or contained by other configurable objects will be initialized in by the parent object.

Specified by:

initialize in interface IConfigurable

Overrides:

initialize in class BasicClustererRenderer