com.raritantechnologies.rql.topic
Class TopicSetBuilder

java.lang.Object
  com.raritantechnologies.rql.topic.TopicSetBuilder

All Implemented Interfaces:

IConfigurable, ITopicSetBuilder

public class TopicSetBuilder

extends java.lang.Object

implements ITopicSetBuilder

Builds a TopicSet from a data source (RTI com.raritantechnologies.searchApp.SeachSource) using a nested ITopicParser to convert query strings to Topic objects.

XML Configuration Template:

   <TopicSetBuilder class="com.raritantechnologies.rql.topic.TopicSetBuilder" 
                       querySource="[ name of RTI Search Source ]"
                       topicNameField="[ name of search result field that has topic name (topic ID) ]"
                       queryField="[ name of result that has query String ]" >

     <!-- mapping of input request parameters to source query fields -->
     <SourceQueryMap>
       <Param requestParam="[ parameter in request ]" queryParam="[ field in query source ]" />
     </SourceQueryMap>
     
     <TopicParser class="[ class of com.raritantechnologies.rql.topic.ITopicParser" >

     </TopicParser>

   </TopicSetBuilder>
 

Developed by Raritan Technologies .

Author:

Ted Sullivan

Constructor Summary

TopicSetBuilder()

Method Summary

TopicSet	buildTopicSet(RaritanPageContext pageContext)
void	initialize(org.w3c.dom.Element elem) Initializes the object from an XML tag or element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TopicSetBuilder

public TopicSetBuilder()

Method Detail

buildTopicSet

public TopicSet buildTopicSet(RaritanPageContext pageContext)

Specified by:

buildTopicSet in interface ITopicSetBuilder

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